Alhaji-Bashir-Tofa
Popular Kano businessman and former Presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the annulled June 12, 1993 election, Bashir Othman Tofa, is dead.
A source close to the family confirmed that the Elder Statesman died in the early hours of Monday after a protracted illness.
He was born on 20 June 1947 in Kano.
Tofa contested alongside his opponent, Social Democratic Party (SDP) Presidential candidate, late Chief Mashood Abiola in the election which was annulled by the former Nigeria Military head of state, Ibrahim Babangida.
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