A close associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Samaila Isa Funtua is dead.

New Media aide to President Bashir Ahmed confirmed this in a tweet on Monday.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un! Just heard about Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua’s sudden death. This life! May Allah accept his soul, forgive his shortcomings and grant him Jannah al-Firdaus.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) July 20, 2020

Also, a source told Solacebase that Samaila Funtua died of cardiac arrest.

Solacebase reports that the founding Managing Director of Democrat Newspaper and former President of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua, would be buried on Tuesday according to Islamic.