Contrary to newspaper reports (not The Nation) that Borno State Governor Zulum’s convoy was involved in an accident which claimed the lives of two persons, clarification has emerged that the news report was inaccurate.
In a statement, the spokesman of the Governor, Mallam Isa Gusau explained that the purported report was not true. He, however, confirmed the death of Mai Kanuribe who died in a car accident on the same Mafe Road while returning return to Maiduguri.
Gusau explained that Governor Zulum on his return to Maiduguri also came across the accident together with Senator Kasim Shettima and show empathy, stressing that the late Mai Kanuribe had left ahead of the governor.
The statement reads: “While acknowledging with so much grief, empathy for the bereaved families, honour and the highest respect for the memory of the Mai Kanuribe of Lagos, Alhaji Mustapha Muhammad, who, alongside two others, died in a car accident along Maiduguri-Mafa Road yesterday in Borno State, we hereby clarify that the convoy of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum was not, in any way, involved in the accident referred to. The news report was completely inaccurate.
“The Mai had, no doubt, travelled to Mafa and the trip was in solidarity with Governor Zulum’s administration and the APC.
“However, the Mai left Mafa on his way back to Maiduguri, while the Governor was still in Mafa.
“The Governor, alongside Senator Kashim Shettima and some leaders, came across the accident on his way back from Mafa and as expected, the governor and those accompanying him, followed bodies of the Mai, and others, to their families in Maiduguri, empathised with bereaved families and took part in funerals.
“This clarification does not, in any way aim to disown the late Mai but to put the record as it is.
“Governor Zulum deeply recognises the fact that the late Mai Kanuribe, a leader with open passion for the progress of Borno State and its people undertook his last journey to Mafa, in honour of the Zulum administration and the APC.
“The Governor, very deeply, shares the grief of Mai’s bereaved family, and families of those who died with him. Zulum mourns with them.
“The Governor prays that Allah forgives the shortcomings of the Mai and those who died with him, and admits all of them into Aljanna Firdaus”, Gusau was quoted as saying in the statement.

By Duku Joel