The chairman of the Middle Belt
Forum (MBF), Bala Takaya, is dead.
Takaya died early on Sunday
morning, at the National Hospital in Abuja, where he had been treating an
undisclosed ailment, according to The Cable.
He was 68 years old.
The late politician hailed from
Mabuguva, Mubi local government area of Adamawa state and is survived by one
wife and five children.
Takaya obtained his first degree
from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in 1974 and later proceeded to the London
School of Economics and Political Science, where he obtained another degree in
1978.
The deceased lectured in ABU and
the University of Jos.
In 1999, he contested for the
office of governor of Adamawa state on the platform of the then All Peoples
Party (APP), but lost to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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