Gov. Dauda Lawal mourns Elder Statesman, Amb. Jabbi Maradun

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has condoled with the household and assemblage of the precocious elder statesman, Ambassador Muhammad Jabbi Maradun, who passed distant successful Abuja connected Saturday astatine the property of 82 aft a prolonged illness.

In a connection issued by his spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, the politician described Ambassador Maradun arsenic a dedicated person who made important contributions to the instauration and improvement of Zamfara State.

“It is with heavy sorrow that we mourn the passing of Ambassador Muhammad Jabbi Maradun, a distinguished elder statesman and a existent lad of our beloved state, Zamfara,” the connection read.

Born connected November 12, 1943, successful Maradun Local Government Area, the precocious Ambassador served Nigeria successful assorted capacities. He was the country’s Ambassador to Tunisia from 1999 to 2003 and played a cardinal relation successful the question for the instauration of Zamfara State.

Following the state’s establishment, Maradun served arsenic Commissioner for Commerce, Industries, and Tourism nether the pioneer subject medication led by Colonel Jibril Bala Yakubu.

He was besides progressive successful politics, with affiliations spanning the GNPP, NPN, NRC, and aboriginal the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). His past nationalist work presumption was arsenic a Federal Commissioner with the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission, wherever helium served from 2005 to 2015.

Governor Lawal extended condolences to Maradun’s contiguous family, the emirate, and the radical of Maradun Local Government, praying for Allah’s forgiveness of his shortcomings and granting him Aljannah Firdaus.

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