AISHA, TAMBUWAL AIDE WHO PERISHED IN A STAMPEDE, WAS BURIED IN SOKOTO.

Hajia Aisha Maina, the Special Adviser on Female Education to Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who died in a stampede at a People’s Democratic Party presidential campaign rally in Sokoto on Tuesday, has been buried.
Her funeral, held at 500 Housing Estate in Kalambina, was attended by the state PDP leadership, including the party’s governorship candidate, Mallam Sa’idu Umar Ubandoma.
Aisha, a member of the PDP’s campaign committee in the state, died minutes after being caught in a stampede at the exit gate of the rally’s venue, Giginya Stadium.

Aesha Maina died in a major stampede that resulted from a motorcyclist falling off his bike at the stadium’s exit gate, according to Ibrahim Magaji Gusau, the chairman of the state’s Forum of Special Advisers, who also confirmed her death.
According to him, the deceased was saved and taken for treatment to Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital in Sokoto.
But regrettably, he added, “she passed away shortly after her admittance.”
They spent the night together working on some of the event’s final details, according to Magaji, who described her as diligent and vivacious.

“We were together even during the rally, not knowing it would be our last meeting,” he said.

He prayed to Allah to forgive her flaws and grant her jannatul firdaus.

The deceased was the former chairperson of the Sokoto state chapter of the National Woman Journalists Association of Nigeria (NAWOJ).

She was also the former Special Adviser on New Media to Governor Aminu Tambuwal before being transferred to the Female Education Board.

Isa Abubakar Shuni, former Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Sokoto State Council, expressed shock at the sudden death of the journalist, whom he said had mentored many female journalists and contributed greatly to the development of the journalism profession in the State.