{"id":16918,"date":"2021-04-03T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=16918"},"modified":"2021-04-03T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T08:13:18","slug":"former-acting-governor-of-delta-state-sam-obi-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/03\/former-acting-governor-of-delta-state-sam-obi-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Former acting Governor of Delta State, Sam Obi is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former acting Governor of Delta State, Rt Hon Sam Obi is dead. He died in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Circumstances surrounding his death was not known as at press time, but sources informed that his body has been deposited in a mortuary in Asaba.<\/p>\n<p>The late Sam Obi represented the Ika North East State Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly for three terms (2003-2015) and became Acting Governor in 2010 after Court nullified the 2007 election of former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and ordered a rerun.<\/p>\n<p>Until his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/01\/tragedy-as-truck-crushed-two-students-of-same-parents-to-death-in-ogun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death<\/a>, he was the General Overseer of Oracle of God Ministry, Asaba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former acting Governor of Delta State, Rt Hon Sam Obi is dead. He died in the early hours of Saturday. 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