A People Democratic Party PDP chieftain in Delta State, Olorogun Taleb Tebite, has reportedly passed on in a Logos Hospital after taking I'll in the build up to the Delta State local government elections.
Olorogun Tebite, was a former Delta State House Assembly members, a notable chief of Olomu kingdom, a philanthropist and a socialist.
Until his death was the Executive Director of Projects at the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), a position he allegedly got as a compensation for his unjust treatment in the PDP where his House of Reps party tickets for the 2023 general elections was taken from him through undercut plots by some of the party leaders.
Advocate.ng gathered Olorogun Taleb Tebite, got ill few weeks to the local government elections and was flown abroad for further medical attention, and only retuned few days ago to Lagos where he passed on today.
Confirming the news of his death, an aide to Tebite, who chose to remain anonymous, because he was not authorized to speak, confirmed the news of his boss’s demise, saying that he "passed away a few hours ago at a hospital in Lagos."
The news of his death has thrown the Olumu kingdom and Delta PDP into mourning, as many party leaders whom Advocate.ng contacted are too shock to speak of his demise.
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