Alhaja Zainab Asari Dokubo, the first wife of Mujahid Dokubo Asari, is dead. She died alongside a friend in a motor accident on her way to Ibadan.

Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni, Chairman, Oyo State Muslim Community, who confirmed the death in a statement, said Zainab was already a Muslim years before she married Dokubo.

He recalled that Zainab, who lived in Ibadan, had to relocate to Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa, when she was appointed Secretary of the Muslims Pilgrims Board.

“Even then, there was hardly any month she was not in Ibadan for one Islamic programme or the other.

“She was a member of many Islamic organisations in Ibadan, including Oluyole Muslim Community under the Imamship of Imam Mudashir Bada.

“It is interesting she was coming to her preferred town Ibadan when she met her destiny.

“She was survived by four children – Amirah, Hassan, Hussain and Osama.

“May Allah accept her multifarious and multidimensional jihad as acts Ibadah and admit her to Jannat Firdaous,” Alhaji Sanni said.

•Text courtesy of Vanguard. Photo courtesy of afroprofile shows late Alhaja Zainab Asari Dokubo.