Politics

Atiku’s campaign coordinator, Danladi Zhin, dies at 54

The coordinator of the Atiku Abubakar’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Danladi Etsu Zhin, has been confirmed dead at the age of 54.

Zhin was also the former Chairman of Kuje Area Council in Abuja.

A close aide to the deceased, Godwin Omonya, confirmed the death of the council chairman on Sunday.

Omonya said Zhin died in the early hours of Sunday in a private hospital in Abuja after a brief illness.

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Omonya, who was also the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the ex-chairman, said Zhin was hospitalised for over a month following an undisclosed ailment.

He said the remains of the deceased have been deposited at a morgue in Abuja.

Danladi Zhin was a House of Representatives aspirant for the Abuja South constituency under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general election.

The deceased, who served two terms as the chairman of Kuje Area Council, was married to Paulina Etsu Zhin, with whom they had three boys and two girls.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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