The Plateau housing and urban development commissioner, Samuel Galadima, is dead. He died while jogging Wednesday morning with Governor Simon Lalong, at the Rwang Pam Stadium, Jos.
He was rushed to the Plateau Hospital, where he died at aged 64.
Emmanuel Nanle, Director of Press Affairs, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria.
“Yes, the commissioner slumped while jogging and was rushed to the Plateau Specialist Hospital, where he died,” he said.
Nanle said that the official was gasping for breath by the time he arrived the hospital.
“Doctors tried to stabilise him but could not. We have lost him,” he said.
It was not first time this kind of sudden death had happened. A famous case was that of the former governor of Benue Aper Aku who also died while jogging.
Meanwhile, Gov Lalong has declared a three-day mourning period in honour of Galadima, Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, who died on Wednesday during morning exercise.
Rufus Bature, the Secretary to the State Government, announced the mourning period in a statement on Wednesday.
He said that the mourning period was from Wednesday, 22 March, to Friday, March 24 and enjoined residents of Plateau to share in the burden of the loss and pray God to grant the family and the entire people of the state the fortitude to bear the loss.
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