Kano-based politician and All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in Kogi State, AbdulAziz Omeiza Aliyu, his younger brother, Salmanu Adeiza Aliyu, have lost their lives in a road crash at Jere town, along Kaduna-Abuja federal highway.
Family spokesman, Abubakar Aliyu, told reporters in Kano that the accident occurred on Saturday afternoon while the governorship candidate and his younger brother were from Abuja in a chartered vehicle.
He said the 36-year-old APC stalwart was in Lagos for official engagement last Friday, adding that he made a stop-over in Abuja same day due to bad weather in Kano that culminated in cancellation of flight.
He explained that the candidate’s younger brother, Salmanu Aliyu, who was also in Abuja for a private engagement, linked up with his elder brother for a return journey to Kano by road.
The family spokesman said: “Omeiza spoke with his father around 1.30p.m., Saturday, few minutes to the ill-fated journey and barely half an hour, we received the shocking sad news of his demise from a Samaritans at the scene of the accident.
“From the report we received, none of the passengers on the Sharon car survived and they have been given mass burial at location at Jere town.”
Commenting on the tragic incident, father of the deceased, Alhaji Momoh Jimoh Aliyu, said the accident was a “fulfilment of destiny. I have accepted it as an act of God.”
Aliyu,who is an ex-staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, explained that “they are from God and they have returned to Him at appointed time and on our part, we have accepted it as an act of God.”
He appealed to thousands of his late son’s supporters, who thronged his Gama quarters residence in Kano, to move on with their lives.
He stressed: “Allah has done what’s best and suitable for us and we should be grateful to Him.”
