Yakowa: Bayelsa holds special session

The government of Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa state

Yakowa died in Saturday’s helicopter crash in the state

In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Markson Fefegha, in Yenagoa on Monday, the session would hold at the Government House.

“The State Government will, thereafter, send a delegation of top government functionaries to accompany the casket of the governor to Kaduna where it will be formally handed over to Kaduna State,’’ he said.

The commissioner said that an enlarged Bayelsa Government delegation, to be led by Governor Seriake Dickson, is expected to visit Kaduna on 19 December to participate in the funeral taking place on 20 December.