By Tofarati Ige
Kano based politician and an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Kogi State, Abdulaziz Omeiza Aliyu, is dead.
The 36-year-old and his younger brother, Salmanu Adeiza Aliyu, lost their lives in a road crash at Jere town along the Kaduna-Abuja federal highway.
Family spokesman, Abubakar Aliyu, told journalists in Kano that the incident occurred Saturday afternoon while the two were returning from Abuja in a chattered vehicle.
The APC stalwart was returning to Kano after an engagement in Lagos but made a stopover in Abuja after bad weather resulted to the cancellation of flight to his final destination.
He was later joined by his younger brother who was also in Abuja and both men voted to return to Kano by road.
The family spokesman said “Omeiza spoke with his father around 1.30pm Saturday few minutes into the ill fated journey and barely half an hour, we received the shocking and sad news of his demise from a Samaritan from the scene of the accident.”
Abubakar Aliyu stated further that “from the report we received none of passengers on the ill fated Sharon car survived and they have been given mass burial at location at Jere town.”
Commenting on the tragic incident, father of the deceased, Alhaji Momoh Jimoh Aliyu, said that the incident was a “fulfilment of destiny”, adding that “I have accepted it as an act of God.”
The Aliyu patriarch, who is an ex staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, explained that “they are from God and they have returned to Him at appointed time and on our part we have accepted it as an act of God.”
He appealed to thousands of his late son’s supporter who had thronged his Gama quarters residence in Kano to move on with their life, stressing that “Allah has done what’s best and suitable for us and we should be grateful to Him.”
