Breaking news: Ogbemudia dies at 84

Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia

By: Efe Osemwegie
Brig-Gen. Samuel Ogbemudia the two-term governor of former Bendel State who showed governance with class and laid the infrastructure for development in Edo and Delta States has died at 84.

Ogbemudia died in Lagos on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at the age of 84.
The cause of his death has not yet been officially disclosed but a source who would not want to be named said that he battled with diabetes.
“It is confirmed. It happened last night,” a source close to the late Ogbemudia’s family also said. Ogbemudia died in Benin on Thursday night at about 11.00 p.m. reliable sources close to him disclosed last night. Ogbemudia had a very successful military career,during which he was made military governor of the former Midwestern State at the beginning of the civil war. The pedigree he left in governance made the defunct NPN  to lure him into politics in 1982 upon which he emerged as the party’s candidate for the 1983 governorship election. He won the election and served for three months before the Muhammadu Buhari led coup truncated the Second Republic. Among his legacies was the University of Benin, which he established at the beginning of the seventies and which honored him with a doctorate degree.


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