PHOTOS: Massive turn-out as Goje buries wife

November 9, 2017 7:30 pm

FGN DELEGATION TO BURIAL OF SEN DANJUMA GOJE'S WIFE. 00A&B. The Remind of Hajiya Yelwa Danjuma Goje with Sea of Crown during burial of wife of former Gombe State Governor Senator Danjuma Goje, Late Hajiya Yelwa Danjuma Goje in Goombe State. PHOTO SUNDAY AGHAEZE/ STATE HOUSE NOV 9 2017

Thousands of people trooped out on Thursday to witness the burial of Yelwa Danjuma Goje, wife of the senator from Gombe central who died in a US hospital on October 30, 2017.

Goje was governor of Gombe state from 2003-2011 and has been a senator since then, currently holding the position of chairman, senate committee on appropriation.

The wife, who died at 55, was buried in Gombe after funeral at the palace of the emir of Gombe.