By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu retired, a former military governor of both Imo and Lagos State is dead.
He was reported to have died this morning in a hospital in Lagos.
The former Naval chief was was the first military administrator of old Imo State when it was created by the military and laid the foundation, including developing the Owerri Master Plan, which the first civilian governor, Chief Sam Onunaka Mbakwe, consolidated.
Two sources close to the Admiral confirmed to TheNiche this morning that he had passed on.
Admiral Kanu celebrated his last birthday in November 2020.
In 1975, he was the only Igbo that was appointed into the Supreme Military Council (SMC), before General Olusegun Obasanjo dissolved it when he assumed office in 1976 as the head of state.
He was an indefatigable pro-democracy activist and was a leader of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) that fought the military in the 1990s.
Details shortly.
