Yakubu Gowon Death: Is Yakubu Gowon Dead? What We Know

Yakubu Gowon Death: Is Yakubu Gowon Dead? What We Know about Yakubu Gowon Death Rumor can accessed below.

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has denied rumours making the rounds that he died on Monday.

 

This Nigeria news platform understands that the death rumour is currently trending on all social media platforms.

 

But his Personal Media Aide, Adeyeye E. Ajayi said in a terse statement on Monday night that the former military leader is not dead.

 

According to the Ajayi, Gowon said “I am still around and well. I am not in a hurry”.

 

Also, NewsOnline reports that the Governorship candidate on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the last general election in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi FNIM, OON further refuted the rumor, making the rounds that former head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) is dead.

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Is Yakubu Gowon Dead?

The former Minister of State for Education, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Orusi Kenneth, on Monday, October 9th, 2023, described the purported death as the “handiwork of mischief makers”.

 

Gbagi disclosed that General Gowon is alive, hale and hearty, and presently in London.

Quoting the much-respected leader, Gbagi said: “General Gowon, is still much around with us, hale and hearty. He is not in a hurry to go anywhere.

 

The former chairman, Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, who urged Nigerians, to ignore rumor about Gowon’s death said; “I, Gbagi, just spoke with him. I hereby refute the rumor of the death of my friend, General Gowon.

Gbagi communicated to Nigerians that he is still much around, hale and hearty. Gowon is alive”