Senate President David Mark has\u00a0 lost his 35 year-old younger sister, Mary Onma-Adakole, who died in Abuja after child birth.<\/p>\n
A statement by Mark\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday, confirmed the development and quoted the late Onma-Adakole\u2019s\u00a0 younger brother, Igoche Mark,\u00a0 as saying that the deceased would be buried in her home town, Otukpo, Benue State, on Friday.<\/p>\n
Mark described his late sister \u201d as a straight forward, hardworking and benevolent with plenty of vision and hope for a greater\u00a0tomorrow\u201d adding that the death was a huge loss to the Mark\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Deputy Senate Ike Ekweremadu, Senate leader Victor Ndoma-Egba , his Deputy Abdul Ningi, Senators Ifeanyi Okowa, Suleiman Adokwe, James Manager, Andy Uba,\u00a0 and Ayogu Eze were among early callers who thronged the the President of the Senate in his Apo residence to commiserate with him.<\/p>\n
Also the Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam, Aviation Minister Stella Oduah, Petroleum\u2019s Deziani Madueke, Water Resources\u2019 Sarah Ochekpe, Interior\u2019s Comrade Abba-Moro as well as Minister of State, Trade and Investment Dr. Sam Ortom were among those who also paid condolence visit to the Mark\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
Uba, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission , in his condolence remarks,\u00a0 described her death as \u201ca rather sad and unfortunate incident\u201d.<\/p>\n
He, nevertheless urged the Senate President to remain strong for the family and find solace in his Christian faith at a difficult time like this.<\/p>\n
He also prayed for the repose of the soul of the late\u00a0 Adekole and urged the family she left behind to take comfort in the memory she shared with them while she was alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senate President David Mark has\u00a0 lost his 35 year-old younger sister, Mary Onma-Adakole, who died in Abuja after child birth. A statement by Mark\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday, confirmed the development and quoted the late Onma-Adakole\u2019s\u00a0 younger brother, Igoche Mark,\u00a0 as saying that the deceased would be buried in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,6133,584,6132,469,6131,6134,4054],"yoast_head":"\n