Alexander Okere, Benin
The Vice Chairman of the Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Uyi Amegor, has died.
Amegor was said to have died on Tuesday, barely six months after he was sworn in.
The deceased was the son of the Edo South leader of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Gentleman Amegor.
Governor Godwin Obaseki, and the Chairman of the council, Eghe Ogbemudia, described the death of council vice chairman as shocking.
Obaseki, who commiserated with the family of the late council leader, said that the late Amegor played a vital role in the state government’s efforts to improve governance at the grassroots.
The governor, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, on Wednesday, pledged that the state government and the APC would stand by the bereaved family through their trying moments.
He also prayed that God should grant…
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