The first civilian Governor of Borno State Mohammed Goni has passed on after a protracted illness, family sources inforned Dateline Nigeria.
Thw forner civil servant died on Wednesday and will be buried tomorrow after funeral prayers, the sources added. He was 78.
Former governor of Borno State Kashim Shettima also announced the death via his twitter handle.
Dateline Nigeria reports that the late Goni was born in 1942 in Kareto, Mobbar Local Government Area, Borno State. He attended Maiduguri Middle School (1953–55), Borno Provincial Secondary School (1956–61), Provincial Secondary School, Kano (1962–63) and the Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1964–87), where he gained a BA (Administration), specialising in international affairs.
In 1977, he transferred to the Nigerian National Supply Company from where he resigned in April 1979 and joined politics.
He was elected as the first civilian governor of the former Borno State, on the platform of the Great Nigeria Peoples Party (GNPP), and was in office from October 1979 to September 1983.
