A popular former Nigerian lawmaker, Alhaji Danlami Hamza, is dead.
His relative, Abdullahi Kausi confirmed to AMILOADED that Alhaji Hamza died on Sunday at a COVID-19 isolation centre at Kwanar Dawaki in Kano.
The former House of Representatives member from Fagge in Kano was confirmed to have died as a result of COVID-19 complications at the age of 70.
According to his relative, the funeral prayer was conducted at about 6:00 p.m at Fagge, in Kano metropolis, with the corpse inside an ambulance.
The deceased was later buried at Abattoir Cemetery in Fagge with the aid of health officials in personal protective equipment.
He died hours after a former senator, Saidu Kumo, from Gombe State, died in the early hours of Sunday.
Alhaja Hamza represented Fagge Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2011 on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP).
He also contested against the present lawmaker, Aminu Sulaiman Goro, in 2015 but lost the election again.
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