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Foremost northern leader and ex-Nigerian minister Alhaji Maitama Sule is dead

He was a presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria in 1979 but lost to Shehu Shagari.

Reports say that Alhaji Sule died in a Cairo Hospital, Egypt this morning according to a close family source.

It was gathered that Yusuf Maitama Sule was a Nigerian politician, acclaimed orator and diplomat.

In 1976, he became the Federal Commissioner of public complaints, a position that made him the nation’s pioneer ombudsman.

In early 1979, he was a presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria but lost to Shehu Shagari.

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