Alhaji Shinkafi died on Wednesday in London
at about 4:07 pm Nigerian time. A top source who spoke in confidence
said the late Marafan Sokoto had initially received treatment at both
St. Nicholas Hospital and Reddington Hospital, Ikeja in Lagos before he
was flown abroad in January after a health relapse,The Nation reports:
"We
lost Shinkafi in London at about 4pm where he was flown to in January
with some members of his immediate family and three medical doctors. In
the last six months, he had been battling with his health. But it has
pleased Allah to call him home. From Allah we came and unto Him we shall
return. Arrangements are being made to bring his corpse to Nigeria for
burial on or before Friday because of flight logistics."
Shinkafi
was a former Director-General of the Nigerian Security Organization
(NSO), now Department of State Security Service ( DSS) from October 1979
to November 1983.xxxHe is survived by three wives and five children
including, Zainab, wife of Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu and
Hadiza, wife of Zamfara State Governor, Abdul Azeez Yari.
Shinkafi
was also a graduate of the University of Lagos where he bagged his LLB
degree in Law in 1973. He was a leading presidential aspirant under the
defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in 1992 before the the
Military regime of ex-President Ibrahim Babangida aborted the primaries.
He
however succeeded in being the vice-presidential candidate of Olu Falae
in the APP/AD alliance in 1999. The alliance was defeated at the poll
in 1999 by the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) which fielded Olusegun
Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar for the presidential race
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