Lokoja, Nov. 10, 2023 – Dansabe Muhammed, the Chairman of Lokoja Local Government in Kogi State, died on Friday less than 24 hours to the governorship election in the state.
He died in the early hours of Friday in a hospital where he was recuperating after he collapsed on Thursday afternoon.
His death in the heat of the electioneering campaigns for the governorship election holding on Saturday has brought confusion to his All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party in the state.
Talba Lakwaja, the Spokesman for the APC in Lokoja, announced the burial ceremony in a statement on Friday.
“This is to notify the general public that the remains of the Lokoja Local Government Council Chairman, Hon. Mohammed Dasebe Mohammed, will be buried at Anguwan Kura burial ground 2pm immediately after jummat prayer.
“The body will depart his family house at cantonment to Lokoja Central Mosque by 1:30pm,” he said. (GBN)
