A House of Representatives member, representing Isa-Sabon Birni federal constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulkadir Jelani Danbuga, is dead.
A member, representing Sabon Birni South constituency at the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Aminu Almustapha (aka Boza), confirmed the death.
According to Boza, the federal lawmaker died around 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday after a brief illness, Daily Trust reports.
He was said to have been admitted in the hospital around Tuesday noon.