The media aide of the Nasarawa State Governor Yakubu Lamai debunked rumours that Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura died while receiving treatment abroad.
Mr. Lamai called people who spread such news “malicious and callous”.Rumours circulating the state that Al-Makura had died of kidney failure in an unnamed hospital in London were he had gone for medical treatment. Social media users got suspicious from the very beginning:
Is it true that governor of nasarawa state Al- makura is dead? …. Just asking
— Gentle Genius (@Gentlekez10) December 30, 2014