Ijaw Leader Slumps And Die In Bayelsa Governor's Office

THE  President of the the pan-Ijaw socio-cultural organisation, the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Senator Tari Sekibo is dead.

Aged 70, Sekibo, it was learnt  slumped and died Monday morning while waiting to see the Governor of Bayelsa State in his office..

Senator Tari Sekibo was said to have been rushed to the Federal Medical Centre where he was  pronounced dead on arrival.

It was gathered that the late Sekibo, an Okirika high chief from Rivers State was in Yenagoa ahead of the planned executive council meeting of the INC.

The meeting, it was learnt was to deliberate and take a position on the crisis rocking the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide which recent national convention is now a subject of litigation.

Contacted on the development, the Publicity Secretary of the INC, Pastor Victor Burubo, confirmed the death of the President, Senator Tari Sekibo.


“We have just heard the news that we have lost our President. We don’t have enough details but he died in Yenagoa. We are arranging to move to Yenagoa and get enough details on the sad incident.”