DAVID BAMIGBOYE – FIRST MILITARY GOVERNOR OF KWARA, DIES AT 78
Nigeria’s first military governor of Kwara State, retired Brig-Gen. David Bamigboye has ben reported dead this Friday.
Younger brother to the deceased, Retired Col. Theophilus
Bamigboye,who established his death via a telephone conversation, said, the late military governor died on Friday after a short illness in Lagos.
The deceased was born on December 7, 1940 and became the military governor of Kwara state between May 1967 and July 1975. During his term as the military governor of the state, he founded the Kwara State Polytechnic in 1972.
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