Jubril Martins-Kuye, a former
Nigerian senator who also served twice as a federal minister, has died.
Family sources told Peoples
Gazette on Sunday that Mr. Martins-Kuye passed on on Sunday morning in his
hometown of Ago-Iwoye. He was 78.
Mr. Martins-Kuye was trained as a
chartered accountant, practicing for several years in Lagos and oversees before
moving to politics where he brought his conservative bonafides to bear.
Mr. Kuye was first elected to the
Nigerian Senate in the truncated Third Republic. When democracy returned in
1999, he ran unsuccessfully for governor as PDP candidate against Olusegun Osoba
in Ogun State. He was subsequently appointed minister of state for finance by
former President Olusegun Obasanjo, remaining in the cabinet until 2003.
Between 2010 and 2011, former
President Goodluck Jonathan tapped Mr. Martins-Kuye as his commerce and
industry minister while completing the remaining tenure of departed President
Umar Yar-Adua.
He was also Aare Musilumi of Ogun
State for several decades. He worked across Nigeria’s political and ideological
spectrum and sought alliances between the north and the south.
Mr. Martins-Kuye will be buried
shortly after 4:00 p.m. based on Islamic rites in his sprawling country home in
Ago-Iwoye, family sources told the Gazette without elaborating on the ailments
that preceded his demise.
He left behind his two wives and
children.
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