Former Military Governor, Ndubuisi Kanu, dies at 77

Former Military Governor of Imo State, 1975, and Lagos State, 1976, Rear Admiral Ndubisi Kanu, (Reted), is dead. 

He was aged 78. The ex-administrator, a chieftain of the pro-democracy group, the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, was said to have died in the early hours on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, at an undisclosed hospital after a brief illness.

The cause of the death could not be confirmed at press time. A relative, Ireke Kanu, who worked in the Ndigbo office of Kanu, in Victoria Island, confirmed his death. 

“I can tell you he passed on this morning. He was 78. We celebrated his last birthday in November 2020. I don’t have much details.

 I am still in the village,” said Kanu, Kanu until.his death, in 1975, was the only Igbo 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 fought on the Biafran side during the civil war but was reabsorbed into the Nigerian military at the end of the war in 1970.