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Ex-Head of the Interim National Government (INC), Chief Ernest Shonekan, is dead.
It was learnt that he gave up the ghost on Tuesday in Lagos. He was aged 85
It will be recalled that Shonekan was chairman of the INC, which succeeded the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida.
He led the country from August 26 to November 17, 1993 until he was overthrown in a palace coup led by late General Sani Abacha who was Secretary of Defence.
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