Buhari mourns Late Jigawa APC senatorial candidate Kiyawa

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The All Progressive Congress APC, Jigawa central Senatorial candidate for the 2023 general election Tijjani Ibrahim Kiyawa has died.
A family source disclosed that Hon. Kiyawa died Saturday night around 11: 00 pm in an Abuja Hospital after suffering from illness.
Kiyawa was a popular politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives for Dutse and the Kiyawa Federal constituency from 2011-2015 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP.
He was also a PDP Gubernatorial aspirant in the 2019 general elections who lost the primary election to Malam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim.

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Kiyawa defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC where he got the party’s senatorial ticket for the Jigawa central in the coming 2023 General election.
His 75-year-old mother Hajiya Fatima Ibrahim (Jaja) was recently kidnapped at her house in Kiyawa town.
She was rescued by security operatives after she was tracked at the Danladi Nasidi Housing complex in Kumbotso Local Government, Kano State.
Kiyawa’s death is coming a few days after the death of Jigawa State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry Salisu Zakari.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, condoled with the family. Buhari’s condolence message is contained in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, titled ‘President Buhari mourns Jigawa APC stalwart, says a good man has been lost.’

Kiyawa had been undergoing treatment for a lung infection in a China Hospital but died on Saturday.

He died barely three months after he won the APC senatorial ticket for his zone where he polled 361 votes, as the lone contestant

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President Buhari described Kiyawa as a “kind and insightful politician who placed the interests of the people he represented above his own.”

“He leaves behind an indelible contribution to the social and economic development of his community and the nation. He will always be remembered for his acute understanding of grassroots political mobilization,” Buhari added.

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