More details has emerged as to the cause of the death of politician and socialite, Kemi Nelson whose death on Sunday July 17 sent shock waves across L
More details has emerged as to the cause of the death of politician and socialite,
Kemi Nelson whose death on Sunday July 17 sent shock waves across Lagos political and social establishment.
Recall that IvoryNG had reported that Nelson had been unwell for a while, treating undisclosed ailments at different hospitals.
Close friends and relations have revealed that she was treating the deadly cancer disease. At some point, she seemed to get better and even held a special thankgiving service on May 8 to thank God for seeing her through the battle.
But death was lurking as two months after, she was struck by a strange attack which she never recovered from.
Incidentally, the attack happened a day before she gave up the ghost.
She was 66 years old.
Her burial plans are currently being discussed.
Nelson, a former executive director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and zonal women leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, was the only female member of Bola Tinubu’s influential governance advisory council in Lagos.
Nelson was appointed to NSITF by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, a position she held until May 2021 when Buhari sacked her alongside other top management of the agency following the recommendations of a Presidential Joint Board and Audit Investigation Panel set up by the President in July 2020 to investigate the infractions of the Public Procurement Act, 2007, and the Financial Regulations (FR) in the NSITF.
Nelson’s death is a huge loss to the APC and particularly its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, who described her as one of his closest associates.
