Barely a month after the death of his older brother and former Kaduna State governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, a credible source in Fadan Kagoma area of Kaduna State has told SaharaReporters that his ailing younger brother Mr. Adamu Yakowa passed on this afternoon at 60 in their hometown.

Adamu, according to our source has been battling with an undisclosed illness even before late Governor Yakowa’s death in a naval helicopter crash in Bayelsa State on December 15th 2012.

The source who is a member of the Yakowa family, also added that the information has been passed to the wife and children of the late governor, who currently mourning Yakowa at the late governor's private home in Kaduna.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/yakowa%E2%80%99s-brother-dies-60-kaduna

RIP.