REAR Admiral Ndubisi Kanu retired, a former military governor of Imo State in 1975 and governor of Lagos in 1976 is dead.

He was reported to have died this morning in a hospital.

Although the source of his death is unknown, the former Naval chief was reported to have been ill for a long time.

A close friend from Abia State who confirmed his death today, January 13, said that Kanu was in his seventies and celebrated his last birthday in November 2020.

In 1975, Kanu was the only Igbo that was appointed into the Supreme Military Council, SMC, before General Olusegun Obasanjo dissolved it when he assumed office in 1976 as the head of state.

He fought on the Biafran side during the civil war but was reabsorbed into the Nigerian military at the end of the war in 1970.