The Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa is dead, family sources said.
Tofa contested against MKO Abiola in the June 12, 1993, presidential election, annulled by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.
The politician’s family sources said he died in the early hours of Monday after an illness.
A deceased’s relation, Alhaji Muhammad, who confirmed the death said “Alhaji Bashir tofa died after being admitted in hospital for sometime”