Former Military Administrator of Kano and Benue states, Colonel Aminu Kontagora, has died at the age of 65, Njenje Media News reports.
He passed on Sunday night after a brief illness at a hospital in Abuja.
According to a close family member, Kontagora died of COVID-19 related complications.
The family source further disclosed that he will be buried today, Monday, January 11, in line with the Islamic injunction.
Colonel Aminu Isa Kontagora was the Administrator of Benue State, from August 1996 to August 1998 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
He was also the Administrator of Kano State from September 1998 to May 1999, under the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar. He handed over power to the then elected executive governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
He was named as a member of the board of The National Veterinary Research Institute by late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua in June 2009. He was later named chairman of the Niger State Elders Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in September 2009.
