A former military governor of Lagos and Imo Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd.) has died aged 77, his associate Joe Okei-Odumakin has said.
“I can confirm that he has passed on. This is very sad news. A statement will be issued soon,” she told newsmen on Wednesday.
An official statement is expected to address the cause of death.
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Kanu was appointed into the Supreme Military Council headed by the late head of state Gen. Murtala Muhammed in 1975.
He became a human rights activist after leaving the military and joined a pro-democracy movement, NADECO, which played a leading role in the agitation for the actualisation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.
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