Alhaji Bamanga Tukur died in Abuja on Saturday, just three days before his 91st birthday. He held numerous prominent positions, including managing the country's ports, serving as a state governor, building an industrial empire, running for president, serving in a military head of state's cabinet, and chairing the party that dominated Nigerian politics for 16 years. His career spanned nearly every era of Nigeria's post-independence public life, and he left a complicated legacy in each role. He was a technocrat, a governor removed by a coup, a continental businessman, a presidential aspirant, a federal minister, and a party chairman brought down by his own organisation.
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