Elder statesman and former presidential candidate, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, is dead.
He died Monday morning at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) after a brief illness.
Tofa was was said to have been at the intensive care unit (ICU) at the hospital for days but was recovering.
He eventually succumbed to the illness.
His funeral prayer wa conducted at his residence at Gandun Albasa, Kano metropolis.
He was 74 years old.
Tofa was the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled Nigeria’s June 12, 1993 presidential elections.
He contested against the late MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The election, adjudged to be free and fair, was annuled by the President Ibrahim Babangida regime.
He was born on June 20, 1947.
Tofa attended Shahuci Junior Primary, Kano, and later City Senior Primary School in Kano.
Between 1962 and 1966, Tofa was at the Provincial College, Kano.
He worked for Royal Exchange Insurance company from 1967 to 1968.
He was at the City of London College, from 1970 to 1973.
He began his political career in 1976 when he was elected councilor of Dawakin Tofa Local Government Council.
In 1977, he was elected a member into the Constituent Assembly.
During the Second Republic, the deceased was at various times the secretary of the Kano branch of NPN, and later became the party’s national financial secretary.
He was a national member of the Green Revolution National Committee.
