PLATEAU STATE COMMISSIONER DIED WHILE JOGGING WITH THE GOVERNOR.

Plateau State received a shock today as the commissioner for Housing and Urban development slumped and died while jogging alongside the Governor at the Stadium in Jos. The photo is that of the aforementioned commissioner, Samuel Galadima, who slumped and died on Wednesday morning while jogging along with Governor Simon Lalong, at the Rwang Pam Stadium in Jos.

The Director of Press Affairs, Emmanuel Nanle, confirmed the tragedy and said; “the commissioner slumped while jogging and was rushed to the Plateau Specialist Hospital, where he died.”

Nanle said that the official was gasping for breath by the time he arrived the hospital. “Doctors tried to stabilise him but could not. We have lost him,” he said.

Before the death of Samuel Galadinma, the state has recorded series of death in few weeks. A third top official in Plateau State governor, Simon Laong‘s administration has died on Wednesday.

This is coming 6 days after Pius Dashe, the Chief Administration Officer, Plateau State Government House, Jos died after a brief illness.

On February 19, 2017, Governor Lalong’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Yusuf Gambo Hawaja died in the car while being taken to the hospital after he collapsed at home.