A retired senior military officer and one time governor of Kaduna State, Mouktar Muhammed, is dead. Muhammed, a retired air vice marshal, died Sunday evening.It was gathered that Mr. Muhammed died in a London hospital. Mr. Dalhatu, who described the deceased as “patriarch of the Dalhatu family” gave the cause of his death as cancer.
The retired military officer was the first governor of Kaduna State after its creation in 1977 by the military administration of Olusegun Obasanjo.