Senator Nuhu Aliyu Is Dead

A former senator representing Niger North in the National
Assembly, Nuhu Aliyu, is dead.
The Niger State Government confirmed his death in a
press statement on Wednesday.
The statement by the Secretary to State Government,
Ahmed Matane, noted Aliyu died on Wednesday in Kaduna
State following a brief illness.
Due to Aliyu’s death, Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello
suspended the weekly State Executive Council Meeting.
“The patriotic tendencies and excellent handling of
legislative duties concerning the welfare of people and the
nation demonstrated by late Senator Nuhu Aliyu are worthy
of emulations.
“But we must take solace in the fact that from God we all
come and to Him we shall all return. Nobody shall live
longer than the time appointed by Almighty God,” the
statement read in part.
Nuhu Aliyu, a Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party
was the first chairman of the PDP in Niger state before
being elected into the Senate of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria in 1999 and was re-elected to the same position in
2003 and 2007.
Born in 1941, the deceased studied Advanced Police
Management at the Police College Jos and rose to
become a Deputy Inspector General of Police.
He was in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation
Department before he retired.