APC welfare officer Friday Nwosu is dead

The National Welfare Officer of the All Progressives Congress and a member of its National Working Committee, Friday Nwosu is dead.

The news of his demise was made public via the official Twitter handle of the APC at about 8.20 pm on Thursday.

The statement read, “Words are not enough to describe the monumental loss brought by the passing of the party’s National Welfare Secretary, Sir Friday Nwanozie Nwosu, on the APC family. May his soul rest in peace.”

Nwosu was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and once contested the Abia State governorship election on the party's platform before defecting to the APC.

The late legal icon was said to have been admitted in an undisclosed health facility in the Federal Capital Territory before he was discharged on Wednesday, The Punch reports.

Nwosu reportedly went back to the same hospital for a routine checkup on Thursday where a source confirmed that he relapsed and had to be rushed into the Intensive Care Unit where he gave up the ghost.

“His death has jolted all the NWC members, including the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu. I am sure the secretariat will release an official report tomorrow morning, “ the source told our correspondent.

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