The
Presidency on Saturday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s extended family
was bereaved with the deaths of two members in quick succession.
The Senior Special
Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu,
announced this in a statement made available to journalists. He said the
deceased who was buried in Daura on Saturday morning was the
President’s niece and younger sister to his close associate and nephew,
Mamman Daura. She died at about the age of 56, leaving behind 10
children, four of them male and six female including one of President
Buhari’s Personal Assistants, Mohammed Sabi’u Tunde,” he added.
The
burial was attended by a Federal Government delegation led by the Chief
of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. Others on the team were the
Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika; two businessmen- Alhaji
Isma’ila Isa and Sayyu Dantata; three Senior Special Assistants to the
President -Sarki Abba, Ya’u Darazo and Shehu; the Director General of
the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar, the
Permanent Secretary, State House Jalal Arabi and the State Chief of
Protocol, Ambassador Lawal Kazaure.
Buhari family had earlier
on Friday buried Hajiya Ai’sha Alhaji Mamman on Friday. He identified
the second deceased as the wife of the President’s older brother, Alhaji
Mamman.