A top administrator and ally to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Joda, is dead.
Humwashi Wonosikou, chief press secretary to Ahmadu Fintiri, governor of Adamawa State, confirmed his demise.
According to the CPS, the family notified the government that Joda passed away in Yola, Adamawa State capital, on Friday afternoon.
Born in 1930, Joda attended Yola Elementary School and Yola Middle School before proceeding to Barewa College from 1945 to 1948.
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Joda was the head of the transition committee of President Buhari in 2015.
The elder statesman died at the age of 91. He reportedly died after a protracted illness.
Joda was the head of President Buhari’s transition committee in 2015
Joda, who was a Nigerian administrator, was born in February 1930, he rose through the administrative cadre of the defunct northern region government and then the federal civil service, where he retired as the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Industries.
During the administration of military head of state, Yakubu Gowon, he was considered to be among a group known as super Permanent Secretaries.
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