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The
Transition Committee Chairman of Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia state,
Mr Onyekachi Okoro, is dead.
A chieftain
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the area confirmed the incident.
Okoro was
said to have slumped at a private residence in Umuahia around 1pm on Thursday
and died before he could get medical help.
The PDP
Chairman Mr. Anthony Nwankwo, confirmed the incident to newsmen at the Federal
Medical Centre, Umuahia, where the deceased was taken for medical attention.
Nwankwo, who
was a close political ally of the deceased, said that he slumped after holding
a meeting with some officials of the council in Umuahia.
He said:
“The man had a meeting with the council’s Head of Service and Treasurer in
Umuahia.
“Thereafter,
he visited the house of our leader (name witheld). At the place, he went into the
rest room.
“When he
came out of the rest room, he started feeling some how and eventually slumped,”
adding that he was quickly rushed to the hospital.
He further
said that the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Azubuike Onyebuchi, was
immediately contacted and that he joined a medical team to carry out
palpitation on him “to see if he could be resuscitated.”
He refuted
the report in some social media platforms that the deceased slumped and died in
his house in Arochukwu after holding a meeting in his office with some council
officials.
A medical
doctor at the Accident and Emergency (A and E) Unit of the hospital said that
Okoro “was brought in dead.”
The doctor,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that efforts made to resuscitate
him by a team of medical doctors were unsuccessful.
News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) reports that his remains were still lying within the precincts
of the A and E unit at the time of filing the report.
Okoro was
appointed the Chairman of the local government in December. (NAN) Avutian
