Arzika Tureta, Sokoto state’s Commissioner for Agriculture is dead at the age of 62.

The commissioner died in the early hours of Monday May 24 at Usmanu Danfodio University Teaching Hospital (UDUS), after a protracted illness.

Tureta who left behind two wives and seven children, once represented Tureta local government area in the Sokoto State House of Assembly, before becoming a federal lawmaker representing Bodinga/DangeShuni/Tureta Federal Constituency.