PHOTOS: Massive turn-out as Goje buries wife
Thousands of people trooped out on Thursday to witness the burial of Yelwa Danjuma Goje, wife of the senator from Gombe central who died in a US hospital on October 30, 2017.
Goje was governor of Gombe state from 2003-2011 and has been a senator since then, currently holding the position of chairman, senate committee on appropriation.
The wife, who died at 55, was buried in Gombe after funeral at the palace of the emir of Gombe.
PHOTOS: Sunday Aghaeze/State House
The remains of Hajiya Yelwa Danjuma Goje being taken for burial
The crowd at the burial
Adamu Adamu, minister of education, presenting a condolence letter from President Muhammadu Buhari to Goje. Sitting, from left: Senate President Bukola Saraki, Gombe governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, and Niger governor, Abubakar Sani Bello.
It’s prayer time for the deceased
Goje swamped by sympathisers
A sea of heads at the funeral
Everybody will die one day.