Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour
and Productivity, James Ocholi, is dead.
He died in a road accident along the
Kaduna-Abuja highway on Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. Ocholi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria
from Kogi state, and his son died on the
spot of the accident.
Those familiar with the incident said his
driver and wife were in critical
condition at Doka clinic several
kilometres from Kaduna.
A witness, whose car was behind the
minister’s when the accident occurred,
told reporters the minister’s car
had a burst tyre before somersaulting
several times.
Contacted, the Minister of Information
and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said he
was away in Lagos and was trying to
confirm the incident.
But a spokesperson to President
Muhammadu Buhari, said the presidency
had been briefed of the tragedy.
“We are trying to issue a statement on
the matter,” the Senior Special Assistant
to the President on Media and Publicity,
Garba Shehu, said.
Mr. Ocholi became Senior Advocate of
Nigeria in 2007, and Chairman,
Disciplinary Committee of the Abuja
chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association.
In 2011, he was governorship aspirant
in Kogi State on the platform of the
defunct Congress for Progressive Change.
Between 2013 and 2014, he was deputy
national legal adviser of the All
Progressive Congress.
Last year, he sought the APC
gubernatorial ticket at the party’s
primary election, losing to the late
Abubakar Audu. He was appointed
minister in 2015.
Mr. Ocholi attended Ochaja Secondary
School, and the University of Jos.
He graduated from the Nigerian Law
School in 1986 and was admitted to the
Nigerian Bar the same year.
(Culled from Premium Times)
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