Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has lost his personal assistant, Abdulateef Suleiman.

The deceased, it was learnt, had been on admission at a private hospital in Abuja.

He died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday, UgamaTV was told.

A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mohammed Onogwu, read, “We regret to announce the passage of the Personal Assistant to the Governor of Kogi State, Abdulateef Suleiman. He will be buried today according to Islamic Funeral Rites. May God accept his soul.”