Former Interim Head of the Nigerian Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, has passed on.
Shonekan was said to have died at Evercare Hospital, Lekki, Lagos, at the age of 85.
The Interim National Government, which he headed between August 26 and November 17, 1993, succeeded General Ibrahim Babangida.
Shonekan’s interim government was ousted in a coup led by late General Sani Abacha.