Another National Conference Delegate, Emir of Gombe, His
Royal Highness Alhaji (Dr.) Usman Shehu Abubakar is dead.The late first-class
monarch, whose death was announced tonight, assumed the throne in the
mid-1980s.
Mr. Abubakar died, Tuesday evening, at the Royal Marsden Hospital,
Fulham Road, London, the United Kingdom, where he was undergoing
treatment for cancer.
The Secretary to Gombe State Government, Abubakar Bage, confirmed the
news of the passing on of the emir in a press release on Tuesday
evening.
A source who is a prince from one of the ruling houses in the town
also informed PREMIUM TIMES earlier that the late emir would be flown
back to Gombe on Wednesday after which he would be buried according
Islamic rights.
The late emir was the chairman of the Gombe State Council of Traditional Rulers and had been on the throne since January 1984.
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