Dada Yar’Adua, the mother of the former late President Umaru Yar’Adua, is dead.
She was said to have died on Monday at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina, after a brief illness. She was 102 years old.
In her lifetime, the centenarian produced a president, two-term governor, vice-president, minister, major general, and a colonel, among others.
One of her sons — the late Umaru Yar’Adua — was a two-term governor of Katsina state and later became Nigeria’s president from 2007 to 2010.
Another of her sons — Shehu Yar’Adua — rose to the rank of major general in the Nigerian Army and was chief of staff during the military administration of Olusegun Obasanjo.
While her third son — Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua — is a current senator representing Katsina central and a retired army colonel.
In the buildup to the 2023 elections, presidential hopefuls, including Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC); former Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; and Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), visited the centenarian at the Yar’Adua family house in Katsina.
