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Biafra: Kanu Is Dead
Kanu is dead.
NewsOne Nigeria reports that a former Military Administrator of Imo and Lagos States, Ndubisi Kanu is dead.
This online news platform understands that the retired Rear Admiral passed away at age 78 on Wednesday, January 13, in a hospital after a brief illness.
His area of origin, Ugwunta in isukwuato Local Government of Abia State is in a mourning mood.
NewsOne Nigeria understands that Kanu fought on the Biafran side during the civil war and was reabsorbed into the Nigerian military at the end of the war in 1970.
In July 1975, as a lieutenant commander, the deceased was appointed a member of Murtala Muhammed’s ruling Cabinet, the Supreme Military Council.
Before his death, Kanu was a member of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). The group which fought for the revalidation of the late Moshood Abiola’s annulled June 12, 1993, presidential mandate.
Kanu was part of those who signed an ultimatum for the General Sani Abacha regime to revalidate Abiola’s mandate and hand over power.
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