Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, Presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC) in the botched 3rd Republic in 1993 has been reported dead.
The Kano born politician had contested with presumed winner of that epic political battle, Chief Mashood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola before the military authority under General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida annulled the election
Family sources said the politician died in the in the early hours of Monday after a brief at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH).
Tofa was born on June 20th, 1947 was an brilliant politician with vast in interest on major business concerns locally and internationally.
