Reports reaching us reveal that former Chief of General Staff, Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, is dead. He was 68.
Akhigbe, whose position in the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC), headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, made him the military vice-president in the junta that superintended the return to democracy in 1999, died at the weekend in England.
It was gathered that the deceased had been battling with cancer for a long time.
Before his appointment as the chief of general staff following the death of the then Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, in 1998, Akhigbe, who hailed from Edo State, was the Chief of Naval Staff.
After his retirement from the navy he studied law and became an attorney specializing in Maritime and Real Estate Law.
May he rest in peace.
He was such a fine gentleman. May he RIP.
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