Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has announced the death of the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Arzika Tureta, who died on Sunday night.
Tambuwal in a
statement, titled, ‘Transition Announcement and Burial’, which he personally
signed said, “With submission to the will of Allah, on behalf of the government
and good people of Sokoto State, I hereby announce the death of our Commissioner
for Agriculture, Hon. Muhammad Arzika Tureta (1959-2021).
“Honourable
Tureta, who had variously served as Commissioner in the state before his last
appointment, battled with protracted illness, died yesterday night.
“An
agricultural entrepreneur, administrator and politician, he attended Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, where he bagged a Bachelor of Education.
“He was a
member of the Sokoto State House of Assembly under the defunct National
Republican Convention and member of the House of Representatives for
Bodinga/Dange-Shuni/Tureta Federal Constituency on the platform of Peoples
Democratic Party. He was also the State Chairman of the PDP in Sokoto State”
He will be
buried today at his home town of Lambar Tureta in Sokoto.
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