The Taraba State Commissioner for Cooperative and Poverty Alleviation, Hon. Naphtali Kefas is dead.
It was gathered that the Commissioner died at the Federal Medical Center, Jalingo on Thursday after a protracted illness.
The Commissioner for Information, Taraba State, Bar. Danjuma Adamu confirmed the development to our correspondent in Jalingo.
It was also gathered that Kefas had been ill for a long period of time and had been flown to Dubai for treatment at different occasions.
Kefas was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for House of Representatives in the Wukari/Ibi federal constituency. He lost the recent general election to Hon. Danjuma Shiddi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
It will be recalled that less than a month ago, Commissioner for Rural Development, Taraba State, Hon. Makus Senllo died of a brief illness in a Yola Hospital.