A Federal Government delegation has arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead the burial of late business mogul and elder statesman, Alhaji Aminu Dantata. He’s expected to be buried in the Islamic holy city of Madinah.
Dantata died in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Saturday at the age of 94.
According to a statement signed by the Special Assistant to the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Rabiu Ibrahim, the delegation, which left Nigeria late on Sunday, arrived in Madinah in the early hours of Monday.
Led by the Minister of Defence and former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, the delegation consists of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN; Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris; and Minister of State for Housing Development, Yusuf Abdullahi Ata.
One of the last wishes of Dantata before he died was to be buried beside his wife, who died in 2023 and buried in Arabian nation.
Dantata was an uncle to Africa’s Richest Man, Aliko Dangote.
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