INEC Loses National Commissioner To Sickness In Turkish Hospital

Prof. Muritala Akinola Salau, INEC National Commissioner, representing South West, has died at 67. Salau, a former Vice Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, died at Turkish Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness on Saturday.

He was buried according to Islamic rites at the Muslim Cemetery, Moniya, Ibadan, on Sunday evening. His corpse arrived at the Ibadan airport at 4.15 p.m. where the Janazah (funeral) prayers took place. The prayer was witnessed by his immediate family members, INEC officials, members of the academic community, Islamic clerics, Muslim groups and other sympathisers. Prof. Muritala Akinola Salau: dies at 65