Nigeria’s former Presidential aspirant Umaru Shinkaffi is dead.
He died at a London Hospital after a prolonged illness.
Shinkaffi was the vice-presidential candidate of Olu Falae in the APP/AD alliance in 1999, although they lost to the Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar PDP ticket.
He was also head of the secret police, the Nigeria Security Organisation (NSO), which has been rebranded Department of State Services (DSS), from 1979 to 1983.
He was also a former Federal Commissioner of Internal Affairs.
He is s survived by three wives, and five children.
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