A top Nigerian Politician and former Presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Bashir Othman Tofa, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that he celebrated his 74th birthday on June 20, 2021. The report by the leading pan-African media group added that Tofa, the major challenger to late MKO Abiola during the notorious 1993 Presidential election, died in the early hours of Monday, 24 years after Abiola died on July 7, 1998. A family source told Platforms Africa that he died after an undisclosed illness, adding that burial plans…
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