Abubakar Mohammed, The traditional ruler of Lere in Kaduna State has died at the age of 76. It was realized and gathered that Mohammed, a retired general in the army, died after a brief illness on Saturday morning in Kaduna.
“He is my friend and uncle. We missed him this Saturday morning. It is indeed a loss for us and the whole family,” a relative, Hassan Mohammed told PREMIUM TIMES.
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According to family members, the monarch, who is survived by four children and many grandchildren, will be buried in Lere town on Saturday at 5 p.m.
Abubakar ascended the throne of Lere after the demise of Umaru Sani in 2011.
Born on April 15, 1944, he attended Lere and Soba primary schools between 1951 and 1958 before proceeding to Barewa College Zaria from 1959 to 1963.
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He was at the Ahmadu Bello Universitysity between 1965 and 1966 before proceeding to the California Polytechnic in the United States after which he joined the Nigerian army.
He rose to the rank of a brigadier general and was a military administrator of Sokoto State from August 1985 to September 1986.
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