Col. Aminu Isah Kontagora (rtd), who was the former Military Administrator of Kano and Benue states, and also a frontline member of the Niger State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has died of COVID-19 complications.
Col Kontagora died at the age of 65 in the early hours of Monday after a brief illness at a health facility in Abuja, on January 11, 2021.
The deceased, a former governorship aspirant on the platform of the PDP during the 2015 general polls, will be remembered for the roles he played in moving the party forward.
According to a close family member of the former military administrator who announced the passing, Kontagora died of COVID-19 related complications.
According to the family source, he will be buried today, Monday in line with the Islamic injunction.
Born in 1956, Colonel Aminu Isa Kontagora was Administrator of Benue State, from August 1996 to August 1998 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
He was also the Administrator of Kano State from September 1998 to May 1999, under the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
He handed over power to the then elected executive governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso on 29 May 1999.
In June 2009, President Musa Yar’adua named him as a member of the board of The National Veterinary Research Institute.
He was later named chairman of the Niger State Elders Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in September 2009.
