BY SALIU SALIU
EMIR of Lere, Kaduna State, Alhaji Abubakar Garba Muhammad, is dead.
The Emir was said to have passed on, Saturday morning, at the age of 77.
Muhammad was the Military Governor of Sokoto State during the regime of General Babangida.
He was said to have died after a brief illness.
He will be buried at 5pm today (Saturday).
Born on April 15, 1944, he attended Lere and Soba primary schools between 1951 and 1958 before proceeding to Barewa College Zaria from 1959 to 1963.
He was at the Ahmadu Bello University between 1965 and 1966 before proceeding to the California Polytechnic in the United States after which he joined the Nigerian Army.
He rose to the rank of a brigadier general and was a military administrator of Sokoto State from August 1985 to September 1986.
