A member of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Tajudeen, has described the death of the Deputy Leader of the House, Umar Buba Jibril, as a big loss.
Tajudeen said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.
The lawmaker, who represents Ijumu /Kabba-Bunu Federal Constituency, said the news of Jibril’s death which occurred in the early hours of Friday, came to him as a shock.
He said that late Jibril would be missed by all as he was a patriotic and hardworking representative of Kogi.
Tajudeen who was speaking while on his way to the burial, said, “his death is still shocking to us, now we are going for his burial”.
He said: “I just want to remind us all that we do not own this life.”
NAN reports that late Jibril represented Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency in the House and was a one-time speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly.
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