By Aliyu Dangida
A Senatorial Candidate of New Nigerian People’s Party for Jigawa Northwest in the 2023 general elections, Alh. Rabi’u Isah Taura has been reported dead.
Rabiu Taura died in the early hours of Thursday after batting with a serious backache for quite sometime.
The deceased served in different capacities under Sule Lamido PDP led regime, as Commissioner of Land and later posted to ministry of Agriculture, he was also a one time Secretary of PDP in Jigawa state.
Later, Rabi’u defected to NNPP alongside with his boss, Aminu Ibrahim Ringim who was then at loggerhead with Sule Lamido.
He served as member campaign council of the NNPP gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa state before give a Senatorial slot.
A friend of the deceased, Hon. Muhammad Mago described Taura’s demise as a great loss not only to his immediate family and Taura people but to the entire Jigawa people and beyond.
His words: “The death of Rabi’u Taura has really shocked me, I pray to Allah SWT to grant him internal rest and gives his family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss”.
Mago described Taura as a complete gentle man of repute integrity and a man of the people and will be remembered for his kind gesture.
The deceased survived with wives and children, and will be buried according to Islamic rites in his home town Taura local government area of the state.
