{"id":48389,"date":"2022-11-30T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/?p=48389"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:42:26","slug":"breaking-popular-northern-politician-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/breaking-popular-northern-politician-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Popular Northern Politician Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Popular Northern Politician is dead.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Newsonline<\/a><\/strong> reports that a popular Northern Politician who is the former Minister of Power and Steel in the Second Republic, Paul Unongo is dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

This online news platform gathered that Unongo, who hailed from Jato Aka in the Kwande Local Government Area of\u00a0 Benue State, died Tuesday morning in Jos, the Plateau State capital at the age of 87.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A strong politician, he aspired to govern Benue State in 1983 but lost to Aper Aku of blessed memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2017, Unongo succeeded Maitama Sule as the chairman of the Northern Elders\u2019 Forum.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A close family source, who confirmed his death to reporters on the phone in Makurdi on Tuesday, simply said that his death would be announced in due course.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cYes Wantaregh Paul Unongo died today Tuesday but I cannot say more than that because I am not authorised to do so. But our family will issue a formal statement on the development,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another source in the state, who did not want to be mentioned, confirmed his death.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis morning, I called and was told that they were bathing him but about 20 minutes after they told me he passed on,\u201d said one of Tiv prominent sons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until his death, Unongo was the chairman of the Governing Council of Nigerian Educational Research Development Council.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born on September 26, 1935, Paul Unongo, belonged to the Kwaghngise-Anure-Abera ancestry, in Turan, Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Popular Northern Politician is dead. Newsonline reports that a popular Northern Politician who is the former Minister of Power and Steel in the Second Republic, Paul Unongo is dead. This online news platform gathered that Unongo, who hailed from Jato Aka in the Kwande Local Government Area of\u00a0 Benue State, died Tuesday morning in Jos, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[40284,40282,40287,40290,40288,40289,40286,40283,40285],"coauthors":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RIP-death-dead.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48389"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsonlineng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}