By AdvocateNews on 30/04/2020
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Alhaji Muhammadu Goni
The death has occurred of Alhaji Muhammadu Goni, the first civilian Governor of old Borno State, comprising the present Borno and Yobe states.
The former governor died at the age of 78 on Wednesday after a brief illness in Maiduguri.
Goni resigned from the National Supply Company and joined politics in April 1979. He was elected as the first civilian governor of the former Borno State, on the platform of the Great Nigeria People’s Party (GNPP), and was in office from October 1979 to September 1983.
He was also part of the Progressives Coalition led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
He was a member of the committee that drafted the 1995 Constitution. In the April 2003 general elections, he ran on the United Nigeria People’s Party (UNPP) platform as vice-presidential candidate with Jim Nwobodo as the presidential candidate.
In January 2011 he was elected by PDP delegates in Borno state to be their governorship candidate in the April 2011 elections. He later lost in the election to young Kashim Shettima of the ANPP.
Posted 30/04/2020 5:01 PM
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