Former military governor of the defunct Midwestern State, Brigadier General Samuel Ogbemudia is dead. He died in Benin yesterday, Thursday night at about 11.00 pm at the age of 84.
Ogbemudia had a very successful military career that was translated into his appointment as military governor of the defunct Midwestern State at the beginning of the civil war.
The legacy he built in governance attracted the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to lure him into politics in 1982 upon which he emerged as the party’s candidate for the 1983 governorship election. He won the election and served for three months before the coup that sacked the Second Republic.
One of his legacies was the University of Benin, which he established at the beginning of the seventies and which honoured him with a doctorate degree. [myad]
