Dr Ibrahim Kurmi, the Deputy Speaker, Yobe House of Assembly kicked the bucket on Monday night at the Yobe State University Teaching Hospital Damaturu, at 48 years old. Alhaji Muhammad Wakil, Director Information of the state House of Assembly, affirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday.
He explained that, “We received with shock, the death of the deputy speaker last night (Monday), after a brief illness and the funeral rites will be conducted today (Tuesday) at 11.00a.m at his residence in Damaturu.”
Kurmi, a trained medical doctor, represented Fika/Gadaka Gadaka constituency in the state assembly and was first elected deputy speaker in 2011, before his resignation in 2012.
He was re-chosen to represent his constituency for the second time in 2015 and was again made the deputy speaker, a position he involved until his passing.
The late lawmaker was conceived on 23 March, 1971 , began his training at Kurmi grade school in Yobe from 1978 to 1984, went to Government Senior Science Secondary school Biu in Borno from 1985 to 1992 and University of Maiduguri from 1992 to 2000.
He was at Murtala Mohammed Specialists Hospital, Kano, for his Housemanship, from 2000 to 2001 preceding continuing for the obligatory national administration plot in Kano in 2002.
He served in different limits at the Yobe State Ministry of Health, before joining legislative issues.
The late Deputy Speaker was survived by two spouses, kids and relations