The first Speaker of the Gombe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdullahi Mohammad-Kwadon, has died at the age of 75.
Alhaji Habu Abdu, a lawyer and son of the deceased, confirmed this to newsmen in Kwadon, Yamaltu-Deba Local Government Area on Saturday.
He said the ex-speaker, who died on Saturday, had been buried according to Islamic rites.
He is survived by four wives, 30 children and many grandchildren.
He was a teacher, administrator at the Local Government Service Commission and manager at Ashaka Cement Company.
Mohammad-Kwadon later joined politics and was elected the first speaker of the state in 1999.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Emir of Deba, Alhaji Abubakar Waziri Mahdi, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, from the same local government area with the ex-speaker, also joined his ancestors on March 23.
NAN.
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