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APC stalwart Kemi Nelson dies

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Kemi Nelson, a former deputy national woman leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has died, an authoritative source within Lagos APC disclosed on Sunday.

Mr Nelson was also a former executive director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr Nelson, a former commissioner in Lagos State was reported to have passed on after a  prolonged illness at the age of 66.

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The impeccable source in APC told NAN that  it was true the party stalwart died after a prolonged illness.

“It is true she has passed on,” he said.

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The source, however, refused to respond to further questions on the demise of the APC leader.

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Mr Nelson is the only female member of the APC’s Governance Advisory Council in Lagos state.

She was appointed to NSITF by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, a position she held until May 2021.

She was born on February 9, 1956, and schooled in Ijebu, Lagos and Ibadan; and was survived by  three children.

Before her death, Nelson was the Yeye Oge of Lagos state and one of the right-hand loyalists of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

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