TRACKING_____The immediate past speaker of Bayelsa State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Monday Obolo, has commiserated with the former President of the Ijaw National Congress, Prof Kimse Okoko, father of the late businessman and politician, Keniebi Okoko over his untimely death.
The former speaker also condoled with the wife of the late politician, his aged parents, his Obunagha community, the Gbarain Clan, Bayelsa State, the Ijaw nation and the PDP family on the sudden death of the politician.
Okoko, a successful businessman and gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last governorship contest in Bayelsa state died in a Lagos hospital during a failed surgery on Tuesday at the age of 42.
Hon. Obolo who described the death of Okoko as painful and sad said that he left indelible marks in the world of business and politics at a young age of 42.
He said, “Keniebi was somebody we all had a lot of hope in; he proved to be an open minded, accommodating, large hearted, understanding political leader that every young man is looking up to.
“My family and I are pained and I have made a lot of calls to our leaders. Everybody is pained and we should take it as bad as it is as what God has done. Nobody can question Him.”
He further urged all Bayelsans and indeed the Ijaw nation to pray against a recurrence of such painful deaths in the state.
The former speaker who prayed for the repose of the soul of the late Okoko also prayed to God to give the grieving family the fortitude to bear the painful loss.
He stressed that Okoko’s death was a heavy blow to Bayelsa and indeed the Ijaw nation.
