Former Minister of Transport and chieftain of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Alhaji Umaru Dikko, is dead.
According to THISDAY, it was learnt that Dikko died in the early hours of Tuesday morning from an age-related illness at a London hospital.
Umaru Dikko, born in 1936 at Wamba was a trusted adviser to President Shehu Shagari. He went on exile after the overthrow of the Shehu Shagari’s government by the military coup of December 31, 1983.
The move by the Muhammadu Buhari/ Tunde Idiagbon regime to secretly extradite him to the country from the United Kingdom to answer corruption charges leveled against failed as it was foiled by Scotland Yard.
Dikko was drugged and was to be shipped into Nigeria as a diplomatic package.
Umaru Dikko later returned to country in the mid-1990s where he participated in the constitutional conference set up by Gen. Sani Abacha. 
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