Mr Abdullahi Mairuwa, the Head Driver of Nasarawa State Governor Tanko Al-Makura has been assassinated by unknown gunmen.
ASP Ismaila Numan, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state confirmed the incident to newsmen in Lafia.
According to Numan, late Mairum was traveling with his wife from Lafia to Keana Local Government Area on Saturday morning when they were ambushed by some gunmen at Tudun Adabu village in Obi Local Government Area of the state.
“The report we got from the scene indicated that Mairuwa’s killers shot him at close range in the presence of his wife before escaping through a bush path,” Numan said.
Numan said detectives had been deployed to investigate the killing.
Meanwhile, a family source, who preferred anonymity, told NAN that the gun men had told the victim’s wife not to panic as they were to her husband alone, whom they shot twice in the chest.
He said the remains of Mairuwa had been taken to Keana for burial according to Islamic rites.
