A former Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Zakawanu Garuba, is dead.
Garba, a two-time member of the state Assembly, was said to have died of an undisclosed ailment on Saturday morning at an Abuja hospital.
The former lawmaker, who holds the traditional titles of Oshiote of Auchi Kingdom and Okumagbe of Uzaire, would have turned 55 on August 23.
Born on 23 August 1965, in Akpekpe community, Auchi, in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state, the late Garuba studied Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State and was called to Bar in 1990.
He was elected into the Edo State House of Assembly in 2003, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, and became the Speaker of the House in 2007.
Garuba was appointed into the Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission as the Executive Commissioner, Finance and Administration (now known as the corporate services directorate).
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