A former Minister of National Guidance, Amb. Maitama Sule, is dead.

Reports said Sule died on Monday morning in Egypt.

The deceased, a hugely respected orator and diplomat, was a former Federal Commissioner of Public Complaints.

He was also a presidential candidate of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1979 but lost to former President Shehu Shagari in the party primaries.

Sule was later appointed Nigeria’s representative to the United Nations after the inception of democratic rule in 1979.

While there he was picked as chairman of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid.

After, Shagari’s re-election in 1983, Sule was made the Minister of National Guidance, a portfolio designed to assist the President in tackling corruption.