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BREAKING: KEMI NELSON DIES AT 66

By Yinka Fagbile

The South West Zonal Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress and former Executive Director at the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Chief Mrs. Kemi Nelson has died.

Kemi Nelson, according to multiple sources has been battling with an undisclosed ailment for some time before her demise on Sunday, family sources have confirmed.

Until her death, she was a very close ally of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and a member of the Governance Advisory Council, the highest decision making body of the Party in Lagos State.

She is survived by three children.

Details later…

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