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By Deji Elumoye
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of Aishatu Ahmadu Bello, second daughter of Premier of defunct Northern Region and Sardauna of Sokoto, Late Sir Ahmadu Bello.
The late Aishatu, who died in Dubai hospital at 75, was the mother of non-executive director of THISDAY Hassan Danbaba.
President Buhari, in a statement by his Media Assistant, Garba Shehu, said, “the deceased lived a worthy and humble life and was an embodiment of discipline and fine character.”
According to him, the deceased and widow of the late Marafan Sokoto, Ahmad Danbaba, “was not only prominent on account of her birth into a powerful family, but also for her own decent character that endeared her to so many people.”
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Bankole, who divorced his first wife in 2017, had, in the past few years, been a much sought after bachelor in the circle of eligible spinsters both within and outside Nigeria.
Friday’s marriage ceremony will draw the curtain on speculations regarding his matrimonial intentions since the divorce. x
The bride, a lawyer and graduate of the University of Hull in the UK, is a granddaughter of the late political heavyweight and onetime head of Nigeria’s security organisation, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, Marafan Sokoto. The bride’s mother is Shinkafi’s daughter and a sister to the former Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi.