The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Nasir Ajanah, has died due to COVID-19 complications, POLITICS NIGERIA has learned.
According to a member of the family of the deceased, the judge died at the COVID-19 isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja. He, however, revealed that the remains of the judge will be buried in Abuja on Sunday.
Recall that the Kogi state government had insisted that the North Central state does not have any case of Coronavirus. It also accused the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) of falsifying COVID-19 cases in Kogi.
But the death of Ajanah, an aide to Governor Yahaya Bello and Shaibu Atadoga, the President of the Kogi Customary Court of Appeal, has negated the stance of the state government.
Ajanah was born in 1956 to the family of MJ Fari Ajanah in Okene local government area.
He studied law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and was called to the Nigerian bar as a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court.
Ajanah later set up his private firm, Nasiru Ajanah & Co in Okene, where he practised law between 1985 and 1989.
He served in various capacities such as chairman, Kabba disturbance tribunal, Kogi, (1994); chairman, election petitions tribunal in Adamawa state (1998); member of governing council of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (1999 and 2006) and chairman, panel on Murtala Mohammed international airport fire incident (2000).
Ajanah served as chairman, election petitions tribunal in Akwa Ibom state (2007) and chairman, election tribunal petitions in Rivers state (2008).
