By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – Alhaji Bashir Tofa, former presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), is dead.
According to family sources, Tofa died at age 74 at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in the early hours of Monday after a brief illness.
Confirming his death, one of the deceased’s relations, said, “Alhaji Bashir tofa died after a brief illness.”
Tofa was born on June 20, 1947.
In the 1993 presidential election, he squared off against MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the presumed winner of the election.
But the Babangida regime annulled the election.
Bashir Tofa was a Kanuri Muslim from Kano State, Tofa was the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled Nigeria’s June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was organised by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.
