By Editor
A former Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Alhaji Zakawanu Garuba is dead. He was 54.
Garuba, a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),who was speaker between 2007 and 2009 died in Abuja in the early hours of Saturday July 18 after a brief undisclosed illness.
The ex-lawmaker, a former member of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) was born in the northern Edo State town of Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of the state on August 23, 1965.
He attended Our Lady of
Fatima College, Auchi between 1978 and 1983 before proceeding to the famous Edo College, Benin for his Higher School Certificate, then to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Osun State where he took a degree in law and graduated in 1989, was called to the bar in 1990.He was the Oshioze of Auchi Kingdom,was controversially removed as speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly by members of the then Action Congress to pave way for Mr. Bright Omokhodion who defected to the AC from the PDP.
A devout Muslim, the former lawmaker was recently appointed a member of the Governor Godwin Obaseki Governorship campaign organization ,he is survived by a wife and three children.
