A former Executive Director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and zonal women leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Kemi Nelson is dead.
According to Peoples Gazette, family sources said Nelson passed on on Sunday morning at the age of 66.
Family members said Nelson had been unwell for a while, treating undisclosed ailments at different hospitals.
The deceased was the only female member of Bola Tinubu’s influential governance advisory council in Lagos State.
President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Nelson as NSITF Executive Director in 2019, a position she held until May 2021 when she was removed under unclear circumstances. Months before her removal, Buhari praised her as a loyal party member and commended her work towards his administration’s success.
She was born on February 9, 1956, and schooled in Ijebu, Lagos and Ibadan; and was survived by her three children.