Delta Assembly Majority Leader is dead

The Majority Leader of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Tim Owhefere, is dead.

Owhefere, a four-time member of the Assembly, died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, where he has been undergoing treatment.

The deceased, who represented Isoko North Constituency until his death, was said to have been hospitalised for about two weeks before his passage at about 11pm on Wednesday.

Several sources in the House, who confirmed the passage to ait.live, said the late lawmaker has been on oxygen for a week before his death, fuelling speculations that he died of COVID-19.

While a family member has also confirmed the death of the lawmaker, the Delta State House of Assembly is yet to issue an official statement.

Recall that the speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, had recently recovered from the deadly Coronavirus Disease.

If speculations are true, Owhefere will become the first major politician in Delta State to have died of the coronavirus.