The All Progressives Congress national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday lost his chief security officer Lati Raheem to the cold hands of death.
Sources said he was sick briefly and hospitalised. He had high blood pressure and diabetes.
Sources added that he died in the early hours of Friday.
Raheem had been on Tinubu’s team for over 20 years and was the only aide still left from his time as governor of Lagos state from 1999 to 2007.
According to report, the deceased was tagged as the most loyal aides of the politician during his lifetime.
He was buried according to Muslim rites on Friday, the first day of Ramadan, which is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari recently lost his most trusted aide, Abba Kyari, who was the Chief of staff following complications from COVID-19.
He also lost his bodyguard, Lawal Mato, to complications from diabetes four days later.
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