JUST IN: LG Chairman Slumps, Dies In Hospital

Information reaching the OSUNREPORTERS NEWS has it that the Chairman of Akwanga Local Government Council in Nasarawa State, Emmanuel Leweh, is dead.

,,,,According to the report, the deceased had a meeting with his council members at the council Secretariat in Akwanga local government area of the state, on Monday.

A source disclosed that the deceased slumped at the council Secretariat, Akwanga, shortly after the meeting.

,,,,,Leweh, who had just spent three months in office, was said to have died at a private hospital in Abuja, on Thursday.

…..A member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Mr, Samuel Tsebe, confirmed the death.

,,,,,“I lost my elder brother (Hon Emmanuel Joseph Leweh, Executive Chairman of Akwanga LGA) to the cold hand of Death this evening after a brief illness.” He said.

(Daily Trust)