The National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled Nigeria’s June 12, 1993 presidential election, Bashir Tofa, is dead.
POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that Tofa died in the early hours of Monday after a protracted illness. He was aged 74.
Tofa was apparently defeated in the presidential election by his rival Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, a personal friend of Ibrahim Babangida and a Yoruba from southwest Nigeria, but the official results were never released by the Babangida government. Babangida was forced to step down in August 1993 after protests calling for the results of the election.
Tofa was also a businessman, an oil trader and industrialist. He was chairman of International Petro-Energy Company (IPEC) and Abba Othman and Sons ltd. He was also involved as a board member in Impex Ventures, Century Merchant Bank and General Metal Products Limited.
