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By Our Reporter
Less than 24 hours ater the demise of Prof Uche Ikonne, the Abia State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, another governorship candidate, Alhaji Aliyu Maina, has died.
Maina was the governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement in Adamawa State.
He was confirmed dead on Thursday but was said to have died on Wednesday, January 25 after a brief illness in Abuja, the same day the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abia State, Prof. Uchenna Ikonne, died.
The National Publicity Secretary of the NRM, Olusola Afuye, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to newsmen.
Maina’s family said in a statement that, late Alhaji Abba Maina died on Wednesday, January 25 at his residence in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, after a brief illness.
He has since been buried according to Muslim rite.
