An APC Chieftain and prominent member of the Lagos Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Professor Tunde Samuel is dead.

Thelagostimes gathered that Prof. Samuel died on Wednesday night at the age of 73.

He was the Special Adviser on Education to former Governor Bola Tinubu.

“Prof. Samuel’s demise is a blow, a pain that would take a long time for us to endure both as residents of Agege, the APC as a family, the GAC, and the entire Lagos State,” Speaker of Lagos state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa wrote in his tribute.

Prof. Samuel was the Chairman of the Governing Councils of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti and the Federal University of Otuoke in Bayelsa.

He was also a UNESCO and UNICEF International Consultant.