BREAKING: Former FEDECO Executive Secretary, Ahmadu Kurfi, Dies At 93, Details Emerge

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Katsina state – A former executive secretary of the defunct Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO) in the Second Republic, Alhaji Ahmadu Kurfi, has passed on at the age of 93.

It was gathered that Kurfi passed on early this morning on Thursday, November 21.

He was the eldest living monarch of the Katsina Emirate.
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FEDECO metamorphosed into the present-day Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It was FEDECO that organised the election that brought in Alhaji Shehu Shagari as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1979.

According to the Leadership, Kurfi, who was the District Head of Kurfi in Katsina state was born in 1931. Until his death, he held the ‘Maradin Katsina’ traditional title in the Katsina Emirate.

Source: TheTalk.NG

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