A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and newly-elected chairman of Bebeji local government council of Kano state, Ali Namadi, is dead.
He died on Tuesday at the age of 57. As of the time of pushing this report about 4.09 pm on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, he would have been buried in his Beveridge residence in accordance to Islamic rites.
A spokesperson of APC committee in Bebeji local government area, Ibrahim Adamu Tiga, said the chairman died at 1.00 am on Tuesday.
Tiga said the deceased drove himself to an hospital in the local government area for his medicals but later died of suspected high blood pressure.
Namadi and 43 other candidates fielded by the ruling APC won all the 44 chairmanship seats in Kano at the council poll held on Saturday (January 16, 2021).
The late council chairman-elect and 43 other elected chairmen and 484 councilors were to receive Certificates of Return from the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) on Tuesday, the day he died and was buried.
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