Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, James Ocholi, is dead, Premium Times has reported.
He died in a road accident along the Kaduna-Abuja highway on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Ocholi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Kogi state, and his son died on the spot of the accident.
Those familiar with the incident said
his driver and wife were in critical condition at Doka clinic several
kilometres from Kaduna.
A witness, whose car was behind the
minister’s when the accident occurred disclosed that the minister’s car
had a burst tyre before somersaulting several times.
Contacted, the Minister of Information
and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said he was away in Lagos and was trying to
confirm the incident.
But a spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, said the presidency had been briefed of the tragedy.
“We are trying to issue a statement on
the matter,” the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity, Garba Shehu, said.Credit: www.signal.com
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