Ahmed Lemu, a retired justice and Islamic scholar, is dead.
Lemu, 91, died in the early hours of Thursday morning in
Minna, Niger state.
His passing was announced in a Facebook post by Maryam Lemu,
his daughter.
“Inna lillahi wa inna liayhi raji’un,” she wrote.
“It is with sadness and reverence to Allah that we announce
the passing away of our father, Dr Justice Sheikh Ahmed Lemu OFR, in the early
hours of this morning in Minna. Burial arrangements to be announced later.
“It has been a privilege to be the daughter to these two
amazing individuals. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.”
Lemu was the chairman of the committee constituted by
ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 to review the violence that occurred in
Nigeria’s past elections.
He is one of the two Nigerians who have won the King Faisal
International Award presented to him in 2014.
He was a Sharia judge at the court of appeals in Sokoto and
Niger between 1976 and 1977.
Lemu then became a chief Sharia judge at the court of
appeals in Niger between 1976 and 1991.
His wife, Aisha Lemu, died at the age of 79 in 2019 after a
brief illness.
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