Taraba: Jukun ruler joins his ancestors at 84
The Aku Uka of Wukari and Chairman, Taraba Council of Chiefs, Shekarau Angyu, is dead.
“The supreme ruler of the Jukun race and chairman, Taraba Council of Traditional Rulers, Dr Shekarau Angyu, joined his ancestors in the early hours of Sunday,” the spokesman of the Aku Uka, Jolly Agbu, said in a statement issued on Sunday.
The statement said the Aku Uka died in his palace in Wukari after a brief illness.
It added that all traditional rites in accordance with Jukun culture had since begun and that the final rites would be announced in due course.
The statement said that the Aku Uka joined his ancestors at the age of 84 years after leading the Kwararafa (Jukun) race for 45 years.
The deceased Aku Uka, who was the chancellor of the Federal University, Dutse, became a traditional ruler in 1976 as a second class chief but was upgraded to first-class status in 1982.
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