By Ovie Okpare
The majority leader of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Tim Owhefere, is dead.
Owhefere, a fourth time member of the Delta Assembly, passed on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, where he had been undergoing treatment.
The deceased, who represented Isoko North Constituency until his death, was said to have been hospitalised for about two weeks before his passage at about 11pm on Wednesday.
Several sources in the House confirmed the passage to our correspondent on Thursday.
Owhefere was said to have been on oxygen for a week before his death fueling speculations that he died of COVID-19.
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The family and the Delta Assembly will officially announce the sad development on Thursday, sources said.
His death has thrown the Isoko Nation into mourning.
However, Owhefere death of suspected COVID-19 has thrown members of the Delta Assembly who reportedly into fears.
It was gathered that some of his colleagues visited him at American Hospital Asaba where he was first admitted before being transferred to Federal Medical Centre, Asaba.
Recall that the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, ad recently recovered from the deadly COVID-19.
The Delta governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, had also tested positive and recovered from the virus.
If speculations are true, Owhefere will become the first major politician in Delta, to have died of coronavirus.
