The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, said on Sunday
that the remains of the late Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, have
been deposited at the morgue of the National Hospital, Abuja.
Bisi Kazeem, the spokesperson of FRSC, confirmed to
the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the corpse of the minister was taken
to the hospital along with two other casualties.
Mr. Kazeem explained that the deceased lost their
lives in a crash that occurred at Kilometre 57, along Kaduna-Abuja highway on
Sunday.
“The minister and two other occupants died
eventually, while four people were injured,” he said.
Although Mr. Kazeem did not give details of the other
victims of the crash, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the other two deceased her the
minister’s wife and son.
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai,
confirmed this in a facebook post.
“It is with great sadness that the Kaduna State
Ministry of Health and Human Services further announces the death of Mrs.
Ocholi at Doka Hospital, who was in coma since the accident near Rijana, along
the Kaduna-Abuja Road. Earlier, the death of Minister Ocholi and his son were
announced. May their souls rest in perfect peace, Amen,” the governor wrote.
Born November 26, 1960, Mr.
Ocholi was 55.
He became Senior Advocate
of Nigeria in 2007.
He was also the 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 Progressives Congress, APC.
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.
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