Abdullahi, one of the nine children of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, is dead.
Born in 1987, he died in his sleep on Saturday morning in Abuja.
He was just six years old when his father became Nigeria’s 10th Commander-in-Chief on November 17, 1993.
He was 11 years when his father died on June 8, 1998.
The 36-year-old died at the family’s Nelson Mandela Street residence in Abuja on Saturday, his sister, Fatimah Gumsu Abacha-Buni, said.
Fatimah is the wife of Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni.
Announcing this on Saturday via Instagram,
she wrote: “Innalillahi wa inna ilahi rajiun (Surely, we belong to Allah and verily to Him do we return). I lost my younger brother, Abdullahi Sani Abacha. He died in his sleep. May Allah forgive his shortcomings and grant him jannatul firdaos (paradise), Ameen. Please include him in your prayers”.
















