A former super permanent secretary and one of Nigeria’s elder statements, Ahmed Joda is dead.
Joda was chairman of the 18-member transition committee, nominated by General Muhammadu Buhari to receive the handover notes from the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration in 2015.
Joda who began his working life as a journalist with the then Northern Broadcasting Corporation in Kaduna, an administrator, journalist, and politician, died at the age of 91 at the Federal Medical Center, Yola, following a brief illness today.
Confirming the death, Mohammed Baba, a long-time associate of Joda told The PUNCH that the elder statesman died this afternoon.
A source close to the family said he had already been taken to the cemetery for burial according to Islamic rights.
“As I’m talking to you, the elder statesman has already been taken to the family cemetery for burial,” the source said.
Ahmed Joda was born in Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State 91 years ago.
