Breaking: Frank Kokori, ex-NUPENG leader, dies on 80th birthday

Breaking: Frank Kokori, ex-NUPENG leader, dies on 80th birthday

Former General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, is dead.

The elder statesman reportedly died exactly 1:30am on Thursday, December 7, 2023.

Kokori died on his 80th birthday, according to a Tribune report.

The report quoted Chief Kokori’s personal assistant, Atawada Barry Oke, as confirming the death of the strong labour leader early this morning.

His death came barely one month after he cried out from his hospital bed that he had been abandoned to die in spite of his huge contribution to the democratic growth of the country.

Kokori, who’s a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, had lamented how NUPENG and the nation had abandoned him to his fate in the hospital where air conditioner was switched off by the hospital management possibly due to a shortage of diesel.

He said he would not mind if he were taken abroad for a medical treatment by the Federal Government of President Bola Tinubu with whom they fought the military junta of late General Sani Abacha in the early 90s over the annulment of the historical June 12 1993 presidential elections.

Kokori’s November outcry attracted dignitaries such as Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State to his sick bed on Friday, November 11.

The governor offset the bills including those of two other patients.

Officials of NUPENG and a delegation from former Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, and several others also visited the ailing octogenarian.