MAITAMA Sule, a former ambassador and minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is dead. Leadership reports that Sule died in a Cairo Hospital, Egypt, this morning, Monday, July 3, according to a close family source.

Sule was a Nigerian politician, acclaimed orator and diplomat. In 1976, he became the federal commissioner of public complaints, a position that made him the nation’s pioneer ombudsman.

In early 1979, he was a presidential aspirant on the platform of the defunct National Party of Nigeria, but lost to Shehu Shagari. He was later appointed Nigeria’s representative to the United Nations by the Shagari regime in September 1979.

At the UN, he was made chairman of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid.

After, the re-election of the then President Shagari in 1983, Sule was made the minister for National Guidance, a portfolio designed to assist the president in tackling corruption.

—  Jul 3, 2017 @ 12:15 GMT