Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Adamu Ciroma is dead.

Ciroma, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, died on Thursday at the Turkish Hospital, Abuja.

Ciroma was CBN Governor between September 1975 and June 1977. He was Finance Minister at the start of the Fourth Republic, between 1999 and 2003, during the first term of President Olusegun Obasanjo in office.

He was born in Potiskum, Yobe State, and died at age 84.

Ciroma was also Chairman of Obasanjo’s 2003 re-election campaign organisation.

In 1983, he chaired the Presidential Transition Committee in 1983.

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