The former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa is dead.
The activist governor, one of the most resilient pro-democracy activists from the core North, died in the early hours of Wednesday. Balarabe Musa, 84, died after a brief illness.
According to Wikipedia, late Balarabe was a left-wing Nigerian politician who was elected Governor of Kaduna State during the Second Republic holding office from October 1979 until he was impeached on 23 June 1981.
During the Fourth Republic, he was leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), a coalition of opposition parties.