Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner representing South West, Professor Muritala Akinola Salau, is dead!

Salau, aged 67, a former Vice Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, died at Turkish Hospital in Abuja during a brief illness on Saturday and was buried according to Islamic rites at the Muslim Cemetery, Moniya, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Sunday evening.

His funeral was attended by his immediate family members, INEC officials, members of the academic community, Islamic clerics, and other sympathisers.

Professor Lai Olurode, a colleague of the deceased at INEC,  said his death was sad and a personal loss to him as the two of them are from both the academic community and South West.

Olurode said he was with the deceased in Abuja before he took ill where he spoke as if he knew he was going to die soon.