Labour Party Loses Another Leader

The Labour Party candidate for Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State House of Assembly, Chukwunonye Irouno, is dead.

The candidate passed away after he and other Labour chieftains had finished touring the Kanu Nwankwo sports stadium in Owerri, the location of Peter Obi’s campaign rally in the state on Monday. He was meant to serve as the official MC for the event.

A friend of the deceased told Punch that the politician died few minutes after arriving his Owerri residence.

He said, “Irouno has died. He just returned to his house and asked his wife to prepare dinner for him. He went inside his bedroom to freshen up. On getting to his bed, he started behaving funny.

“His children couldn’t understand his action. They went to the kitchen to call their mother. Before his wife could rush to the bedroom, he was dead.

“This is unbelievable. This was a man who was supposed to take charge of the proceedings during the Labour Party presidential rally in Owerri. He died few minutes after asking his wife to prepare food for him.”

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The LP rally in Owerri on Tuesday came dangerously close to being disrupted by the news of Irouno’s passing.

The crowd burst into shouts as soon as Kingsley Onunuju, the rally’s local organizing committee chairman, announced his passing and requested a moment of quiet in his memory.

Prior to his death, Irouno was a well-known master of ceremonies in Owerri and Rochas Okorocha’s senior special assistant on public affairs and entertainment.