An APC Chieftain and prominent member of the Lagos Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Tunde Samuel is dead.

Professor Samuel served as Special Adviser on Education to Bola Tinubu when he was a former governor of Lagos state.

He died Wednesday evening, aged 73 years.

Speaker of Lagos, Mudashiru Obasa  described the deceased as a “giant” whose services to the city of Lagos will not be forgotten easily.

“Prof. Samuel’s demise is a blow, a pain that would take a long time for us to endure both as residents of Agege, the APC as a family, the GAC, and the entire Lagos State,”

Tunde Samuel was the Chairman of the Governing Councils of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti and the Federal University of Otuoke in Bayelsa.

He was also a UNESCO and UNICEF International Consultant.