- Foremost northern leader and ex-Nigerian minister Alhaji Maitama Sule is dead
- He was a presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria but lost to Shehu Shagari.
Former minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ambassador Maitama Sule is dead.
Leadership reports that Alhaji Sule died in a Cairo Hospital, Egypt this morning according to a close family source.
NAIJ.com gathered that Yusuf Maitama Sule was a Nigerian politician, acclaimed orator and diplomat. In 1976, he became the Federal Commissioner of public complaints, a position that made him the nation's pioneer ombudsman.
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In early 1979, he was a presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria but lost to Shehu Shagari.
Late former Nigerian minister Maitama Sule
He was appointed Nigeria's representative to the United Nations after the coming of civilian rule in September 1979. While there he was chairman of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid.
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After, the re-election of President Shagari in 1983, Maitama Sule was made the Minister for National Guidance, a portfolio designed to assist the president in tackling corruption.
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