BREAKING :Former Interim Government Head Shonekan Dies At 85

The former Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, is dead.

The TVC reported that Shonekan, who succeeded the military junta of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), died in Lagos on Tuesday at the age of 85.

Shonekan was the Chairman of the interim National Government put in place after the military government of Babangida annuled the June 13, 1993 Presidential election believed to have been won by late Chief Moshood Abiola.

Shonekan was appointed as head of the interim government and served between August 26 and November 17, 1993 when he was ousted in a palace coup led by late Gen Sani Abacha who was Secretary of Defence.

Before his appointment , Shonekan was the chairman and chief executive of the United African Company of Nigeria.

In 1994 After he was ousted by Abacha, he founded the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, an advocacy group and think-tank for private sector-led development of the Nigerian economy.

Shonekan featured prominently as an elder statesman until his death.