“I Mourn The Passing Away Of My Father-In-The-Struggle”: Keyamo On Kokori’s Death

By Daniel Dafe

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has mourned the passing away of a former General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Frank Kokori, who died at a private hospital in the early hours of Thursday.

Kokori’s Personal Assistant, Atawada Oke, disclosed the passage of the veteran labour leader to journalists early Thursday, noting that his health relapsed on Monday when he was unable to interact with people around him while he was placed on life support,

Reacting, Keyamo, wrote on X: “I mourn the passing away of my father-in-the-struggle, my mentor and my guide. When Frank Kokori was in solitary confinement in Bama prisons for his struggle for the restoration of the June 12 mandate nearly 30 years ago, I personally represented him in various courts, fighting for his freedom. As a result, I became an adopted ‘son’ of his family. His late wife and children were constantly in court with me and I would spend time in their home in Surulere.

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“I would later team up with him years later in the APC family in Delta State to struggle to liberate our State. He lived in the struggle and died in the struggle.”

According to him, “this is definitely the end of an era.”

“My deepest condolences to his family members, the APC fold in Delta State and to the Labour movement in Nigeria,” he concluded.