Sultan, Tambuwal, Others, attends Sadauna’s Grandson Burial in Sokoto

Gbolahan Salman Sokoto

The  Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal led the funeral prayer of the grandson of the late premier of the Northern region and the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, and the magajin Garin of Sokoto, Alhaji Hassan Ahmadu Danbaba, who died on Saturday afternoon in Kaduna.

The late Magajin Garin, died at the age 51, less than a year after the death of his mother and the daughter of the late sage, who died in April last year.

According to one of his aide who broke the news while speaking with our correspondent on Saturday, the Sokoto kingmaker died in the hospital in Kaduna

“Until his death, Danbaba held the influential traditional title of the Magajin Garin Sokoto.

“He died on Saturday at the 44 Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna after a brief illness”

Other dignitaries who attend the funeral prayer at the Sultan Muhammadu Bello Jumat Mosque, led by the chief imam, Liman Malami Akwara includes Governors of  Kaduna and Kebbi States, Ahmad El-Rufai and Atiku Bagudu respectively.

Others include the former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa and member of the state executive council.

Danbaba, until his sudden death was the Board Chairman, Sokoto Rima Basin Authority, was reportedly survived by three wives and six children, including five girls and one boy.

He was later in the evening buried at his family burial ground in Sokoto