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Taraba House Of Rep Member-Elect, Isma’ila Maihanchi Dies In Abuja

The House of Representatives member-elect for Jalingo/Yorro/ Zing Federal Constituency Taraba State, Hon. Isma’ila Yushua Maihanchi, is dead.

Isma’ila Maihanchi, who won the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), died in the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja.

Punch quoted an aide to the late member-elect saying that he will be buried according to the Islamic rites today at the national cemetery in Abuja.

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Tobias Sylvester

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