BARNABAS BANTEX, FORMER Kaduna DEPUTY GOVERNOR, IS DEAD

Bantex was deputy governor to Governor Nasir El-Rufai between 2015 and 2019 when he resigned to contest for Kaduna South Senate seat in 2019 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He was defeated by the incumbent, Senator Danjuma La'ah of the Peoples Democratic Party.

He was aged 64.

May his soul rest in peace.