A Labour Party (LP) governorship aspirant in Imo State, Chief Humphrey Anumodu, is dead.
Anumodu reportedly died in Lagos after he returned from a meeting at the LP national headquarters in Abuja on Friday.
Humphrey Anumodu hailed from Obazu Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state.
Before his sudden death, he was a multibillionaire businessman cum politician who had been contesting for the governorship seat of the state since 1998.
However, during his last political outing in the 2019 Imo governorship election which he contested for on the platform of the zenith Labour Party, Anumodu went with the political slogan “Soro Onye ma Uzo” in his political engagements and bid to rule the state.
A political associate said that he died around 5:30pm on Friday.
He said ” Oga went to a meeting in Abuja on Friday. He forgot a document and quickly rushed to Lagos to pick it.
“He was bid to return to Abuja on Saturday. On getting to his house, he lost consciousness. He was rushed to a hospital in Lagos. An oxygen mask was placed in him. He was not responding. A doctor came and confirmed him dead.”
Recall that the aspirant, before purchasing the N25m worth of LP forms, he had bought and given out 27 vehicles to LP Chairmen in the 27 LGAs of the state.
A formal announcemdnt of his demise had yet to be formally announced by the family as of press time.
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