APC Zonal Women Leader Kemi Nelson dies

Kemi Nelson, a former executive director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and zonal women leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has died.

According to information from the family source, Ms. Nelson, the only female member of Bola Tinubu’s influential Governance Advisory Council in Lagos, passed on Sunday morning at 66.

Further reports state that Ms. Nelson had been unwell for a while, treating undisclosed ailments at different hospitals.

Ms. Nelson was appointed to NSITF by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, a position she held until May 2021, when she was removed under unclear circumstances. Months before her removal, President Buhari praised her as a loyal party member and commended her work towards his administration’s success.

She was born on February 9, 1956, schooled in Ijebu, Lagos, and Ibadan, and was a mother to three children till her death.

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