Sad! Ex-Cross River Deputy Gov, Matthias Offoboche is Dead

 

A family source revealed that Chief Matthias Offoboche (OON), the former Deputy Governor of Cross River in the second republic is dead.

The source said, Offoboche who was deputy to late Chief Clement Isong, former governor of the state on the platform of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), died on October 25.

Mrs Juliana Offoboche, wife of the deceased and former Director of Public Prosecution in Cross River, confirmed the death of her husband on Tuesday however, she debunked rumours that the former deputy governor died in London.

“Who took him there? Did they take him there? I am presently in his house in Abuja, devastated. Surely, we will get back to you,’’ she said.

Offoboche, who until death was a PDP chieftain, had been campaigning for the creation of Ogoja State and power shift to the Northern Senatorial District of Cross River.