{"id":26932,"date":"2019-12-19T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=26932"},"modified":"2019-12-19T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:34:06","slug":"uwajumogus-last-moments-before-death-how-he-missed-senate-chief-whip-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=26932","title":{"rendered":"Uwajumogu\u2019s Last Moments Before Death .How He Missed Senate Chief Whip Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=26933\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26933\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Senator-Benjamin-Uwajumogu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Senator-Benjamin-Uwajumogu.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Senator-Benjamin-Uwajumogu-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Senator-Benjamin-Uwajumogu-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The shocking death of the Senator who represented Okigwe zone, Rt Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu has resurrected the last moments he shared in life.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">A rude shock swept across Nigeria, particularly Imo State on Wednesday when the Senator was said to have slumped and died. This was after the death rumour had hit the social media and subsequent denials in the early hours.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Friends and relations who were close to him during lifetime have given account of the last moments he had.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Several friends in the National Assembly Abuja who associated with the late Uwajumogu recounted the last encounters they had with the late Senator.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">One of his colleagues in the Senate recounted that Uwajumogu was full of life on Tuesday 24 hours before died. He said Uwajumogu walked around and exchanged pleasantries with all who came his way. According to him, the late Senator shared banters and left without anyone having the premonition that it would be his last day at the National Assembly complex.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Back home, an appointee of the governor of Imo State, Eze Ochiwar Ugochukwu, SSA in Public Enlightment had gone to the social media to share pictures he had with late Uwajumogu.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ugochukwu disclosed that on Dec 12th, Uwajumogu attended a power sector summit in Owerri where he also spoke.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The late Uwajumogu, according Ugochukwu had no signs of illness but was his usual\u00a0 boisterous self.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, TRUMPETA learnt that the heavily Built former Speaker was billed to be anointed the Chief Whip of the Senate within the week.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This Newspaper learnt that the office of the Chief Whip of the Senate was about to be declared vacant following the jailing of Senator Orji Kalu who presently occupies the position.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Trumpeta was informed that whenever the seat was thrown open, the late Uwajumogu would have stepped into the position, as he is the most senior Senator from the Southeast of APC fold.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Sources said that Uwajumogu was meant for that job, but it was \u201ctemporary\u201d ceded to Orji Kalu, because Uwajumogu was already battling in court to authentic his election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Therefore, with his sudden death on Wednesday, Imo State has lost that position, as it still remains in conjecture, if the other APC Senator, Chief Rochas Okorocha can now clinch it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shocking death of the Senator who represented Okigwe zone, Rt Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26934,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26932\/revisions\/26934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}