By Moshood Adebayo
FORMER Minister of Communication, Major General Abubakar Tanko Ayuba ((retd.) is dead.
Daily Sun reliably gathered late yesterday that Ayuba died of an undisclosed ailment at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Lagos.
Before his admission at the tertiary hospital, he was said to have been admitted at an undisclosed private hospital for about two months in Lagos.
A former military governor of Kaduna, Ayuba was also a member of the then Armed Forces Ruling Council in 1985 before his appointment as a minister of communications between 1985-87.
The late minister, who hailed from Kebbi State, was elected senator for Kebbi South constituency on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in April 2007.
As a senator, he served on many committees, including the Defence and Army, Police Affairs, Integration and Cooperation, Navy, Science and Technology and National Planning, among others.