<p style="text-align: center;">Former Presidential Candidate, Bashir Othman Tofa is dea<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3634" src="https://arisenewsng.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG-20220103-WA0019.jpg" alt="" width="290" height="174" /></p>
A former presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the 1993 aborted third republic, Bashir Othman Tofa, is dead.

He died after a protracted illness.

The erudite politician and astute businessman was rumoured to have died on Friday evening.

Burial arrangements yet to be announced by the family.