Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, is dead.
He was aged 84.
Musa was in office from October 1979 until he was impeached on June 23, 1981.
The death was announced by his political associate, Senator Shehu Sani, who wrote on Twitter: “Alhaji Balarabe Musa has died. May Allah forgive his souls and grant him Aljanna firdausi. Amin.”
Musa was elected governor of Kaduna State on the platform of the then People’s Redemption Party in 1979 but was controversially impeached and removed from office in 1981.
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A progressive, the late Musa was a known critic of successive administrations in the country.
