Lagos APC exco member dies hours before inauguration

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The newly elected Assistant Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Yesiro Karamo, is dead.

PUNCH Online reports that Yesiro was among the excos led by its Chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi, elected via consensus at the Lagos State APC congress held at the Mobolaji Johnson Stadium, Onikan, Lagos, on Tuesday.

His death comes hours before his inauguration alongside other excos scheduled to hold at the Lagos APC Secretariat today (Thursday).

The Lagos APC confirmed Yesiro’s death in a statement made available to PUNCH Online on Thursday, by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo.

The statement read, “The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) received with profound shock and deep sorrow the news of the sudden demise of our newly elected Assistant Publicity Secretary, Karamo Yesiro. Punch