By Ebi Perekeme
A Bayelsa-born billionaire businessman and philanthropist, Kpeniebi Okoko has died in Lagos, and was not raised from the dead by any cleric as the opposite was published in certain quarters.
GbaramatuVoice which has obtained Okoko’s death certificate can report that Okoko, 42, passed away on Tuesday during a tummy tuck surgery in a Lekki hospital, Lagos.
He came to limelight when he contested the Bayelsa primary for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party last year, but lost.
He would be remembered by many too numerous to mention.
Details later…
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