The House of Representatives member-elect for Jalingo/Yorro/Zing Federal Constituency in Taraba State, Isma’ila Maihanchi, is dead. 

Maihanchi died in the early hours of Saturday after a brief illness. 

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He won the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). 

A source in the family told Channels Television his remains would be laid to rest according to Islamic rites later in the day.