APC Senatorial Candidate, Kiyawa Dies In Jigawa

The Jigawa State chapter of the All Progressive Congress, (APC)has announced the death of its senatorial candidate for Jigawa Central, Tijjani Ibrahim Kiyawa.

A family source who confirmed the development said that Kiyawa died on Saturday around 11 pm.

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The APC candidate was confirmed dead in an Abuja hospital after suffering from illness.

He served as a member of the House of Representatives for Dutse and the Kiyawa Federal constituency from 2011-2015 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP.

He also contested in the governorship primary of the main opposition party in 2019 but lost to Aminu Ibrahim Ringim.

Kiyawa defected from PDP to APC where he got the senatorial ticket of the party for the Jigawa central in the 2023 election.

The APC chieftain’s death is coming a few days after the death of Jigawa State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Salisu Zakari.

Under the nation’s new Electoral Law that came into being earlier in 2022, the ruling party would have to conduct another primary to field a candidate for the slot left behind by the deceased Kiyawa.

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