Tag: Nigeria’s Top Politician

Nigeria’s Top Politician, Jimi Agbaje, Loses Son

Ganiyu Amodu

One of Nigeria’s top politicians, Olujimi Kolawole Agbaje, simply addressed as Jimi Agbaje, has lost his first son, Bunmi. It was gathered that the son of the former governorship candidate died in Canada. Bunmi Agbaje was said to have died of cardiac arrest. The senior Agbaje is a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party and also the Lagos State Coordinator of the Afenifere Renewal Group and active member of the Save Nigeria Group. He is also the Managing Director of JayKay Pharmacy and has extensive interests and investments in…

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Nigeria’s Top Politician, MKO Abiola Challenger, Bashir Tofa Dies at 74

ADEOLA YUSUF

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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