Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson, the first governor of Lagos state, and a retired Nigerian Army Brigadier-General is dead,
He died at the age of 83.
Family sources told TheCable that Johnson died on Wednesday around 4pm.
He served as governor of Lagos between May 1967 and July 1975 during the military regime of Yakubu Gowon.
He became a director of construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria in 1979 and its chairman in 1996; a post he held until 2009.