Junaid Mohammed, a fierce critic of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, has died at the age of 71. Mohammed was a member of House of Representatives in the Second Republic and the vice presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party in Nigeria’s last presidential elections. An eldest son to the desease, Sulaimon Junaid Mohammad confirmed his […]
Mohammed, who trained as a medical doctor, died on Thursday in Kano, SaharaReporters has gathered.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 18, 2021
Second Republic lawmaker from Kano State, Dr Junaid Mohammed, is dead.
Mohammed, who trained as a medical doctor, died on Thursday in Kano, SaharaReporters has gathered.
His brother, Dr Ahmed Salik, a former lecturer with the Bayero University Kano and a former member of the House of Representatives, confirmed his death.
Unconfirmed sources, however, said he died at an isolation centre. His burial is expected to be announced by the family soon.
Minister of Investment and Trade, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo and other sympathizers visited the deceased s house in Kano to sympathize with the family.
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A 2nd Republic lawmaker and popular government critic, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has died at the age of 71,
The PUNCH has learnt.
Junaid, who was the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the last election, was said to have died in his home state of Kano on Thursday.
A brother of the deceased, Ahmed Salik, confirmed the death to
DAILY NIGERIAN on Thursday night, saying the funeral would hold on Friday morning.
Junaid who studied medicine in the defunct United Socialist Soviet Republics, in the 1970s, served in the House of Representatives during the 2nd Republic until the National Assembly was dissolved by the Muhammadu Buhari-led military junta in 1983.
Second Republic lawmaker Junaid Mohammed dies at 73
Junaid Mohammed died Thursday night in Kano at the age of 73
Mr Mohammed died on Thursday night at the age of 73.
His younger brother, Ahmad Salik, confirmed to journalists that the politician died after a brief illness at his Lamido Crescent residence in Kano.
Mr Mohammed’s funeral prayer is scheduled for Friday morning at the Farm Centre graveyard in Tarauni quarters in the Kano municipal.
A vocal public affairs commentator, Mr Mohammed was the vice Chairman of the Social Democratic Party and its vice-presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election.
A Soviet Union-trained medical doctor, he practised and taught medicine before he joined politics and became a member of the House of Representatives under the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) of the Second Republic.