The remains of the former Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, has arrived the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja Friday from the United States of America. Suntai, governor of Taraba State from 2007 to 2015, died on June 28 at his residence in Orlando, Florida, US where he was recuperating from the injuries he sustained in a plane crash that occurred at Yola on October 25, 2012.
Suntai’s Corpse Arrives Nigeria Friday Ahead of Burial Saturday. The remains arrived Abuja by 7a.m. from where it would be conveyed to Jalingo where it is expected to be received by a mammoth crowd of followers and indigenes of the state.
The state government, which has undertaken to give the former governor a state burial, has declared today as public holiday to enable the people of the state to receive his remains at the Jalingo airport as well as participate in the activities lined up for his burial.
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