Late Governor Yakowa's widow, Amina nominated for vacant Deputy Governor position

In a bid to compensate for the loss of her husband, wife of the late Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, Amina Yakowa, has been tipped to succeed former deputy governor, Mukhtar Ramadan Yero as the new deputy governor of the state.

The idea was mooted by friends, associates, top politicians and traditional chiefs in the state who raised the idea at an emergency meeting.

Sources hinted that it was a traditional chief who first raised the idea and other dignitaries at the meeting jumped at it, conceding to the emir’s suggestion that Yakowa’s wife should be compensated with the position of deputy governor since her husband won the 2011 election by popular votes and died in office while on active service.

According to the source who attended the meeting held at Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, Kaduna, to discuss who becomes the deputy governor of the state, almost all those present at the meeting nodded at the idea.

It was revealed that some popular politicians from the late Yakowa’s Southern Kaduna area, however, seemed uncomfortable with the idea.

Part of the reason attributed for their outright rejection of Mrs. Yakowa to emerge as deputy governor is that she has not been a politician and might not be able to properly represent the Southern Kaduna zone that over the years had suffered marginalisation, until when the late Yakowa emerged as governor.