President Bola Tinubu has conferred the national honour of CFR on a former military Governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa, retd.
Tinubu announced this at a grand reception during his one-day working visit to Kaduna State on Thursday.
He said, “Let me use this opportunity to correct an omission.
“Some of the people I missed in my June 12 broadcast at the National Assembly is Colonel Dangiwa. Let me honour him with CFR.”
Dangiwa was the Governor of Kaduna State from August 1985 to June 1988 during regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
After his retirement from the army in 1993, he became a social critic and founded the political party, Movement for Unity and Progress.
Tinubu is in Kaduna to commission a number of CNG buses, health centre and other projects across the state.
