According to Premium Times, Mouktar Muhammed, a retired Air Vice Marshal and one time governor of Kaduna State, is dead. He died on Sunday evening, according his younger brother, Faruk Dalhatu.

It was gathered that Mr. Muhammed died in a London hospital. Mr. Dalhatu gave the cause of his death as cancer.

The retired military officer was the first governor of Kaduna State after its creation in 1977 by the military administration of Olusegun Obasanjo.