Ogbemudia, ex-Bendel governor, is dead

Samuel Ogbemudia, former military governor of the old Bendel state, is dead.

NAN reported his death but gave no details.

The deceased was a chieftain of the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

He celebrated his 84th birthday last September.

Ogbemudia joined the Nigeria army in 1957, training at Teshie, Ghana and at Netheravon and Salisbury Plain in England (1957).

He attended the officer cadet school at Aldershot, England in 1960, and was commissioned second lieutenant in 1961.

He attended the United States army special welfare school at Fort Bragg, South Carolina in 1962, and served with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Congo for 16 months, and in Tanzania in 1964.

He was appointed as an instructor to the Nigerian Military School, Zaria in 1964.