Alhaji Shinkafi died on Wednesday in London at about 4:07 pm Nigerian
time. A top source who spoke in confidence said the late Marafan Sokoto
had initially received treatment at both St. Nicholas Hospital and
Reddington Hospital, Ikeja in Lagos before he was flown abroad in
January after a health relapse,The Nation reports:
“We lost Shinkafi in London at about 4pm where he was flown to in
January with some members of his immediate family and three medical
doctors. In the last six months, he had been battling with his health.
But it has pleased Allah to call him home. From Allah we came and unto
Him we shall return. Arrangements are being made to bring his corpse to
Nigeria for burial on or before Friday because of flight logistics.”
Shinkafi was a former Director-General of the Nigerian Security
Organization (NSO), now Department of State Security Service ( DSS) from
October 1979 to November 1983.xxxHe is survived by three wives and five
children including, Zainab, wife of Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu
and Hadiza, wife of Zamfara State Governor, Abdul Azeez Yari.
Shinkafi was also a graduate of the University of Lagos where he bagged
his LLB degree in Law in 1973. He was a leading presidential aspirant
under the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in 1992 before
the the Military regime of ex-President Ibrahim Babangida aborted the
primaries.
He however succeeded in being the vice-presidential candidate of Olu
Falae in the APP/AD alliance in 1999. The alliance was defeated at the
poll in 1999 by the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) which fielded Olusegun
Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar for the presidential race.