Sad!! INEC Commissioner And Former VC Of LAUTECH, Prof. Salau Is Dead

The Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) representing the South West, Prof. Muritala Akinola Salau, 67, is dead.

Salau, a former Vice Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, died at Turkish Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness on Saturday.

He was buried according to Islamic rites at the Muslim Cemetery, Moniya, Ibadan, on Sunday evening. His corpse arrived at the Ibadan airport at 4.15 p.m. where the Janazah (funeral) prayers.

The prayer was witnessed by his immediate family members, INEC officials, members of the academic community, Islamic clerics, Muslim groups and other sympathizers.

The corpse was later led to the cemetery in a long convoy where he was buried amidst prayers.