Ex-presidential candidate, Bashir Tofa, is alive but critically ill

A former presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the 1993 aborted third republic, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, is alive but critically ill. 

It will be recalled that the erudite politician and astute businessman was rumoured to have died on Friday evening in trending stories on social media.

However, a close associate to the elder-statesman, Alhaji Ahmed Na’abba, in an interview with Freedom Radio denied the story saying, the Kano born politician is alive. 

Alhaji Nastura Ashir Shariff disclosed that Bashir Tofa is alive but critically ill and hospitalized. 

He requested prayers for the quick recovery of the politician.

Bashir Othman Tofa was born on 20th June 1947.

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