APC welfare officer, Nwosu, dies at 63

National Welfare Officer of the All Progressives Congress and a member of the National Working Committee, Friday Nwosu, is dead. He was aged 63.

The late legal icon was said to have been admitted in an undisclosed health facility in Abuja before he was discharged on Wednesday.

According to a Punch report, he reportedly went back to the same hospital for a routine check up on Thursday where his condition relapsed and had to be rushed into the intensive care unit where he gave up.

The demise of the national welfare officer was reported via the official Twitter handle of the APC at about 8.20pm.

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

Nwosu’s last official assignment before the presidential and National Assembly elections was a press conference he held on February 10 where he appealed to former Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogah, and other disgruntled stakeholders to reconcile with Abia governorship candidate, Ikechi Emenike, to rescue the state from the Peoples Democratic Party.

“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,” a source said.

As of the time of filing this report, his remains had been deposited at the mortuary.