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General News of Thursday, 28 January 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Delta politician dies after recovering from coronavirus

Sir Tim Kome Owhefere (Esq.) Sir Tim Kome Owhefere (Esq.)

Sir Tim Kome Owhefere (Esq.), the majority leader of the Delta State House of Assembly is dead.

He died at 11 pm at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, after being hospitalized for about two weeks.

He served as a member of the house for four terms before he was elected majority leader.

Owhefere represented Isoko North Constituency until his death, hailed from Akiowhe community, in the council area.

While there is yet to be an official statement on his passage, several sources confirmed the sad development on Thursday morning, The Nations reports.

But his media aide, Palmer Ogheneyole Nathaniel, posted the development on his Facebook post, drawing several condolence messages.

Owhefere was said to have been on oxygen for a week before his death, fueling speculations that he died of COVID-19.

This suspicion is reportedly causing anxiety among members of the Delta House of Assembly as some colleagues were reported to have visited him at a hospital (name withheld) in Asaba where he was first admitted, according to The Nations.

The Nation had reported Delta Speaker, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, recently recovered from COVID-19.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had also contracted and recovered from the virus in the peak of the pandemic last year.

If speculations that Owhefere contracted the disease turn out to be true, then he will become the first major politician in Delta to have died of coronavirus.