Kano state Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Saturday, attended the funeral prayer (Salatul Ghaib) for the late Brig.-Gen. Abdulrahman Kuliya, Acting Chief of Army Intelligence, who died alongside the Chief of Army Staff and 9 other officers in a military plane crash in Kaduna on Friday.
Kano state Commissioner of Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, made this known in a statement.
Garba stated that the prayer session for the late Gen. Kuliya, an indigene of Kano state, was led by Professor Shehu Ahmad Sa’id Galadanci, Murshid of the National Mosque, Abuja, at Al-Furqan Jumu’at Mosque in Kano metropolis on Saturday afternoon.
He said the prayer session was graced by the Chief Imam of Al-Furqan Jumu’at Mosque, Dr. Bashir Aliyu Umar, Kano traditional title holders, some family members, friends and other sympathisers of the deceased.
The commissioner also added that prayers and supplications were offered to Almighty Allah for the soul.