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As if to pass the divine message that death is no respector of age, affluence or background, after calling General Buhari ‘quater to die’, the Benue State Commissioner for Rural Development and Cooperatives, Mr. Aondowase Chia, slumped and later died in a hospital.
The Commissioner is believed to have died of stroke.
On March 3, he had presented his ministry's budget for 2015 before the Benue State House of Assembly without showing any signs of illness.
When he returned to his office, he was unable to stand from his chair and was speedily taken to the Benue State University Teaching Hospital in Makurdi, where he passed away.
Chia is the second commissioner in the ministry to die in office under the administration of Governor Gabriel Suswam. Atorto Girgi, an indigene of Ushongo Local Government Area of the state, as the ministry’s commissioner, died in active service over three years ago.
Chia died at about 6.30am at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi. The Chief of Staff to the Governor, Prof. Saint Gbilekaa, who led members of the state executive council on a sympathy visit to the family of the deceased in Makurdi, the state capital, described the death as sad and very unfortunate.
Chia had during one of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign rally in the state called Buhari ‘quarter to die’.
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