Mohammed Idris, minister of information and national orientation, says the burial of the late Aminu Dantata, business magnate and philanthropist, will take place on Tuesday.
Dantata died on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
(UAE), but he wished to be buried in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
On Sunday, Mustapha Junaid, the late philanthropist’s
principal private secretary, said Dantata would be buried Monday morning.
However, Idris told the BBC that the burial would be held on
Tuesday, as both the Nigerian embassy and the family of the deceased are
working on completing the necessary documents.
The minister is part of the federal government delegation
for Dantata’s funeral led by Mohammed Badaru, his defence counterpart and
former governor of Jigawa.
The delegation, which departed Nigeria late Sunday, arrived
in Madinah in the early hours of Monday.
Other members of the delegation include Lateef Fagbemi,
attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, and Yusuf Abdullahi
Ata, minister of state for housing development.
Also in the delegation are Islamic clerics — Bashir Aliyu
Umar, Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, and Khalifa Abdullahi Muhammad, imam of Dantata
Mosque in Abuja.
On Saturday, Salatul Ga’ib, an Islamic funeral prayer in
absentia, was held in Kano for the late Dantata.
The funeral prayer was held at the Umar Bin Khattab Mosque
in Kano metropolis and was led by Ibrahim Khalil, chairman of the Kano state
council of Ulamas.
Dantata, 94, an uncle of Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest
man, is survived by three wives, 21 children and 121 grandchildren.
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