Just In: Tears as Former Kogi Deputy Speaker Dies in Abuja

• The Kogi State House of Assembly has been thrown into mourning following the death of Hon. Enema Paul.
• The immediate past Deputy Speaker died in a hospital in Abuja in the early hours of Saturday, December 14
• The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Aliyu Yusuf, described Paul as a team-playing, committed lawmaker, and public servant

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FCT, Abuja - The immediate past Deputy Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Enema Paul, has passed on.

The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Aliyu Yusuf, said that Paul died in the early hours of Saturday, December 14.

Paul stepped down as the deputy speaker on health grounds and was later replaced by the member representing Ibaji State Constituency, Comfort Nwuchiola.

Yusuf said Paul passed on in an undisclosed illness at an Abuja private hospital.

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As reported by The Punch, Yusuf made this known in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mohammed Yabagi.

He was the member representing Okura State Constituency in the current 8th Assembly in the state.

“The former Deputy Speaker was a man who exemplified a commitment to the unity of the state, having demonstrated a genuine desire to enhance pro-people legislation for overall development."

“He was also a devoted Christian who saw beyond religion and whose godliness and commitment to family values were unquestionable.”

Yusuf described the former Deputy Speaker as a friend, temperate, humble, team-playing, committed lawmaker, and public servant.

He also commiserated with Paul's family and prayed that God would grant members of the current and immediate past assembly the fortitude to bear the loss.

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Zwingina was a key ally of the late MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential election.

The former lawmaker died on Wednesday, October 2, at the age of 70 in Abuja after a protracted illness.

Source: Legit.ng