The Transition Committee Chairman of Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia; Mr Onyekachi Okoro, is dead. His demise was confirmed by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the area.

Okoro was said to have slumped at a private residence in Umuahia around 1pm on Thursday. Sadly, he 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 to for medical attention. Equally important, Nwankwo, who was a close political ally of the deceased LG Chairman; 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 somehow and eventually slumped.”

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Okoro was brought in dead, doctor says

Nwankwo disclosed that Okoro was quickly rushed to the hospital. Further, he 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.”

Meanwhile, he refuted the report in some social media platforms that the deceased slumped and died in his house; after holding a meeting in his office with some council officials.

However, a medical doctor at the Accident and Emergency (A and E) Unit of the hospital said that Okoro; “was brought here dead.”

In addition, the doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that efforts made to resuscitate him by a team of medical doctors were unsuccessful.

Okoro was appointed Chairman of the local government in December.

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