Justice Abdulkadir Jega brother of INEC's Jega among Mecca dead pilgrims.

Justice Abdulkadir Jega. 

Sadly the brother of the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, Justice Abdulkadir Jega, was among the 707 who lost their lives in the Hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, today confirmed that 2 Court of
Appeal Justices were part of the casualty. One was Justice Abdulkadir Jega, who until his death was the Presiding Justice of the Abuja Division of the appellate court and Justice Musa Hassan Alkali of the Ilorin Division‎.

Ex INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega