Former Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, is dead.
According to a statement on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary of CNPP, Dr Yunusa Tanko, the former National Chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) and Ex national chairman of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP), died Wednesday morning.
Tanko stated that Musa died after a brief illness at the age of 84 in his home in Kaduna state and was yet to be buried at the time of this report.
Balarabe Musa was the first democratically elected governor of the old Kaduna state.
Balarabe Musa, a left-wing Nigerian politician, was elected Governor of the then Kaduna state (comprising Kaduna and Katsina states) during the Nigerian Second Republic on the platform of PRP with a socialist system that believes in welfarism of the common man, the poor.
He held office from October 1979 until he was impeached on 23 June 1981.