The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on Monday said it received with shock and sadness the news of the death of Engineer Abdulkadir Kure, a former Governor of Niger State.

Kure died at 60 on Sunday in Germany, after a protracted illness.

He was also a Foundation Member of ACF Board of Trustees in 2000.

A statement in Kaduna by Muhammad Ibrahim, ACF National Publicity Secretary, described late Kure as an accomplished Engineer and administrator per excellence who served and rose to the position of Director Engineering in the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), FCT Abuja, before joining politics in 1998.

The statement said of Kure: “He was a humble, calculative and transparent politician who was first elected Executive Governor of Niger state in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003.

“Engineer Kure would be remembered for his humility, love and defender of his religion (Islam) and the North, the people-oriented projects in education, mass housing estates, rural development and many others executed by his administration in Niger State during his first and second tenure.

“ACF mourns the death of Engr Abdulkadir Kure and extends its condolences to his immediate family, the Government and people of Niger State.”

ACF prayed to Allah (SWT) to grant to late Kure Aljannah Firdaus and his family, friends, associates and people of Niger State the fortitude to bear the loss.

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