Popular Nigerian Lawmaker Dies In India

Popular Nigerian Lawmaker Dies In India

The member-elect for Chibok constituency in the Borno House of Assembly, Nuhu Clark, is dead.

Nuhu Clark

Clark was a former Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation, before resigning on April 25, 2022, to contest the Chibok State Constituency election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Borno state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Babakura Abbajatau, who confirmed the development on Wednesday, said Clark died in India on Monday, while undergoing treatment.

Borno Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur, described the death as a huge loss to his immediate family, people of Southern Borno and the state at large.

Kadafur described the death as a great loss to the All Progressives Congress (APC), in view of his outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the state.

He commiserated with the immediate family of the late politician, and prayed to the Almighty God to give the family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.