Ms Kemi Nelson, a former deputy national woman leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has died, an authoritative source within Lagos APC disclosed on Sunday.
Nelson was also a former executive director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Nelson, a former commissioner in Lagos State was reported to have passed on after a prolonged illness at the age of 66.
The impeccable source in APC told NAN that it was true the party stalwart died after a prolonged illness.
“It is true she has passed on,” he said.
The source, however, refused to respond to further questions on the demise of the APC leader.
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Nelson is the only female member of the APC ‘s Governance Advisory Council in Lagos state.
She was appointed to NSITF by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, a position she held until May 2021.
She was born on Feb. 9, 1956, and schooled in Ijebu, Lagos and Ibadan; and was survived by three children.
Before her death, Nelson was the Yeye Oge of Lagos state and one of the right-hand loyalists of the APC presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu.
(NAN)
