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President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and his wife Hajiya Turai arrived Katsina yesterday on a private visit. The plane conveying the president and his wife touched down at Katsina International Airport at 5:50pm.

At the Airport to receive the President and his wife were Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema and his wife, his Deputy, Alhaji Sirajo Damari, Speaker Katsina State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ya’u Umar Gwajo-Gwajo, Secretary to the Government of Katsina State Architect Ahmed Aminu Yar’Adua, Head of Civil Service of the State, Alhaji Muhammad Danyaya Mashi, members of the State Executive Council, Special Advisers and some members of the National Assembly as well as a business mogul, Alhaji Dahiru Bara’u Mangal.

Others were Emirs of Katsina and Daura, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman, and Alhaji Umar Faruk Umar respectively and other traditional rulers.

Also at the Airporty were members of the political class and well wishers.

Shortly after the airport protocols, President Yar’Adua and his wife drove to the Presidential Lodge at Government House, Katsina in company of Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema, his Deputy Alhaji Sirajo Damari, his wife Hajiya Fatima Shema, Speaker Alhaji Ya’u Umar Gwajo-Gwajo and othetr top government functionaries.