Her husband reportedly died of undisclosed illness on Saturday in Abuja.

Hassana, her three children and aged mother of the late Speaker were travelling from Abuja for the burial when they ran into kidnappers at Kabba junction in Kogi state.
The kidnappers were said to have made away with the widower while leaving the three children and their grandmother.
It was not certain, if ransom was paid by the late Speaker’s family before she was released by her abductors.
