President Bola Tinubu has sent a delegate to Saudi Arabia for the burial of businessman and elder statesman, Alhaji Aminu Dantata.
A statement from the Ministry of Information and National Orientation, confirmed that the business mogul will be buried in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Madina.
The delegation from Nigeria touched down in Saudi Arabia on Monday morning, having taken off on Sunday.
Dantata will be buried in the Islamic holy city of Madinah, according to the statement.
The businessman passed on in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Saturday. He was 94.
In the delegation are the Minister of Defence, Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris and Minister of State of Housing Development, Yusuf Abdullahi Ata.
Others are Islamic clerics, Dr Bashir Aliyu Umar, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa and Khalifa Abdullahi Muhammad, the Imam of Dantata Mosque, Abuja.
