Patrick Yakowa

Brief Governor of Kaduna State (May 2010 – December 2012, PDP), first Christian governor of Kaduna State (from Southern Kaduna). Acceded after Namadi Sambo was nominated Vice President by President Goodluck Jonathan in May 2010; won the 2011 election in his own right. Died alongside former National Security Adviser General Andrew Azazi in a Nigerian Air Force (Naval) Augusta-Westland AW139 helicopter crash near Okoroba, Bayelsa State, on 15 December 2012, while returning from the funeral of former NSA Patrick Owelle's father. Succeeded by Deputy Governor Mukhtar Yero. No corruption allegations are recorded in the imported corpus. Recommended as a `contextual` node for the Kaduna political network — NOT as an accused.