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<\/p>\nThe APC, in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday, said that Asala died suddenly at his Egbe hometown in Yagba West Local Government in the evening of July 13, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, the death of Asala came as a rude shock and a tragedy to the party.<\/p>\n
The statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary of APC, Mr Jibril Abu, commiserated with the family, friends and associates of Asala, urging them to bear his death with fortitude.<\/p>\n
The party also promised to stand by his immediate family members in this trying period and beyond.<\/p>\n
Also, Gov. Yahaya Bello has described the death of Asala as a great loss to the party and the entire people of the state.<\/p>\n
Bello in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onogwu Mohammed, said that the late Vice Chairman was a patriot who served the state to the best of his ability.<\/p>\n
\u201cAsala was a quiet man, a consummate party leader, who played several defining roles in the success of our party as Zonal Chairman, Kogi West.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe state has lost a selfless leader and a peacemaker. We promise to stand with the family at this moment of grief,\u2019\u2019 Bello said.<\/p>\n
While commiserating with the family, friends and associates of Asala, the governor urged them to take solace in the quality of peaceful life he lived.<\/p>\n
The late APC chieftain was during his lifetime, a two-time Chairman of Yagba West Local Government and a former Councillor in the same council.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chief Ropo Asala, the Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State has died at the age of 54 years. The APC, in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday, said that Asala died suddenly at his Egbe hometown in Yagba West Local Government in the evening of July 13, NAN reports. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,29,499],"class_list":["post-135833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-kogi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}