Buhari, ACF Mourn Former Kaduna Deputy Gov via thisdaylive
President Muhammadu Buhari and the Arewa Consultative Forum have mourned the immediate former Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Barnabas Bala , who died yesterday in an Abuja hospital, following a protracted illness.The Kaduna State Government has declared today work-free in honour of the former deputy governor.
The president said the former deputy governor was a potent voice on peace, stability, and progress at the state and national levels. In a statement, el-Rufai said: “From our days as undergraduates in the 1970s to our practice as professional colleagues in the construction industry and eventually partners in a governance project, Bantex was consistently a dependable man of brilliance and imagination.
“Bantex had served the people of Kaduna State in several capacities prior to becoming deputy governor.”In a statement yesterday in Kaduna, the spokesman of the forum, Mr. Emmanuel Yawe, said the ACF was sad over the demise of Bala. “The ACF condoles with Governor El-Rufai and the immediate family and the whole of Kaduna State on the loss of the great human asset known as Architect Barnabas Bala Bantex.”
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