The first military administrator of Jigawa State, Olayinka Sule, is dead.
It was learnt that Sule died on Sunday at the age of 72 years.
A retired brigadier-general of the Nigerian army, he was appointed the military administrator when Jigawa State was created in August 1991 by the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida.
He ran the state for four months until January 1992 when he handed over to the first elected governor of the state, Sa’ad Birnin-Kudu, at the take-off of the short-lived Third Republic.
Sule Lamido, the second governor of the state in the Fourth Republic, confirmed Mr Sule’s death in a statement from his media aide, Mansur Ahmad.
Lamido described the deceased as a great pillar and gentleman whose loss is irreparable.
He prayed to God to grant the soul of the deceased eternal rest in Aljannatul Firdaus.
