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Associate Editor.
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Former Secretary to Zamfara State Government under the second tenure of former Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar Prof. Abdullahi Muhammad Walin Shinkafi has been announced dead.
This is contained in a public announcement placed on the social media by his family members, copy obtained by this medium.
Details of his death were not formally issued to the press, but the family members announced that his funeral prayer will be held at the Abuja Central mosque at 4:00pm on Sunday the 25th of June 2023.
He is survived by two wives, both of whom are professors currently working at the University of Abuja and many children.
The former SSG was formally a Professor Forestry at the famous Usman Danfodio University Sokoto before he retired and joined full time politics
Late Prof. Shinkafi served as the Director General under the tenure of former Governor Ahmad Sani Yariman Bakura, Managing Director of Zamfara Mass Transit under the tenure of former Governor Mahmuda Shinkafi and Commissioner Ministry for Religious Affairs under the first tenure of former Governor Yari.
On the second coming of former Governor Yari he made him to serve as the Secretary to the Zamfara state government.
His last assignment was the Secretary of the APC gubernatorial campaign council in Zamfara.
