The immediate past deputy governor of Kaduna State, Arc. Bala Bantex, has died. Bantex who served in the first tenure of Governor Nasir El-Rufai, died in an Abuja hospital today Sunday, July 11. He was aged 64.
Bantex was deputy governor to Governor Nasir El-Rufai between 2015 and 2019 when he resigned to contest for Kaduna South Senate seat in 2019 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He was defeated by the incumbent, Senator Danjuma La’ah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Confirming the death, Governor El-Rufai, in a statement released this afternoon, wrote;)