VETERAN LABOUR LEADER KOKORI DIES ON 80TH BIRTHDAY.

Babatunji Wusu:

Frank Kokori, a prominent figure in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a distinguished statesman, has officially passed away.
On Thursday, December 7, 2023, at precisely 1:30 am, the former general secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), who was 80 years old, passed away.

The Tribune claims that Kokori’s personal aide, Atawada Barry Oke, revealed his passage at around 1:30 in the morning.

According to Oke, the former labor leader’s condition worsened on Monday since he was unable to communicate with those around him while on life support.

Kokori passed away just one month after screaming from his hospital bed on Thursday, November 9, 2023, that despite his enormous contribution to the nation’s democratic development, he had been ignored and left to die.

The octogenarian has been ill since early November at the Mount Horeb Clinic in Warri, Delta State’s Warri South Local Government Area, due to a kidney-related condition.

On Thursday, November 9, 2023, at around 12:40 am, Kokori had called in despair, claiming that his life was being taken away from him while he was being treated for a kidney-related illness.

In the hospital, Kokori had bemoaned how NUPENG and the country had abandoned him to his fate. The hospital administration had turned off the air conditioner, probably because there wasn’t enough diesel.

The feisty labor leader, who was born in Ovu, had expressed dissatisfaction at the notion that those responsible for his care had left him alone in the Warri hospital.

Then, he stated that he would not object to being flown overseas for excellent medical care by President Bola Tinubu’s Federal Government, which, alongside them, had battled the late General Sani Abacha’s military regime in the early 1990s over the nullification of the historic June 12, 1993, presidential elections.

On Friday, November 11, Chief Kokori’s ill bed was visited by dignitaries, including Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, following his November outburst. The bills of two additional patients were also paid for by the latter.