Chief of Staff to The Nigerian President, Abba Kyari Dies Of The Dreaded COVID-19 Virus.

According to Wikipedia, ''Abba Kyari (17 November 1938– 25 November 2018) was a Nigerian Army Brigadier who served as Governor of the now defunct North-Central State, Nigeria after it was formed from the Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon.

As an army officer Kyari had survived a mutiny by a battalion under his command in the aftermath of the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup. He subsequently rose to command the Nigerian Army's 1 Brigade and then the army's artillery branch. In July 1967 he was appointed governor of North-Central State under the military government of Yakubu Gowon. 

He held the position for seven years and implemented a masterplan for the development of the city of Kaduna. He cautiously welcomed the return to civilian rule. Kyari later led the northern delegation of the 1994 National Constitutional Conference and chaired its National Defence Committee. After his retirement he was a director or chairman of several businesses in Nigeria''

His last position before his demise is that of the Chief of Staff to the Nigerian president, Mohammadu Buhari.

He fell ill after a recent visit to Germany where he contracted the  novel COVID -19 virus which later claimed his life.

There has been speculations as to when exactly he died, and where he died. it was rumoured that he was smuggled out of Nigeria sometimes earlier in the month to an undisclosed country.

A couple of weeks later, a controversial news blogger had claimed that a death of a big shot at Aso rock had occurred.

Words on the street is that Abba had died earlier than announced.

May his soul find peace with his maker.