Former Nasarawa Governor dies at 75

Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, former Nasarawa State Governor, is dead.
The development was confirmed by the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Information, Mamman Alakayi.
Alakayi told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lafia that 75-year-old Doma died in an Israeli hospital on Tuesday.
“I got a call from the late governor’s son, Umar, this evening, that Baba Doma died in an Israeli hospital at about 7:45pm Nigerian time,” he said.
Alakayi said the former governor had gone to the hospital to treat an undisclosed ailment three weeks ago.
“We are currently making arrangement for some family members to travel to Israel and convey the remains back home for burial,” he said.
NAN reports that Doma was the governor of Nasarawa State from 2007 to 2011 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Born on September 1, 1942 in Doma Local Government of Nasarawa State, Doma attended the University of Ibadan from 1964 to 1966 and also attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1976.
The former governor obtained a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in 2002.
He worked in the old Plateau State Civil Service from 1976 to 1983 and rose to the position of a Permanent Secretary.
Doma was a Deputy Governor of Plateau State and later elected Governor of Nasarawa State.