The Ogbia Brotherhood, a socio cultural group of Ogbia people of Bayelsa across the world, has expressed shock and dismay over the demise of Mr Gordon Obua, former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
Obua, who hailed from Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, died of heart attack on Thursday at the National Hospital Abuja.
Mr Fred Obua, a family member to the late CSO, confirmed the demise in a telephone interview on Friday but declined further comments.
“I am on my way to Abuja as we speak in connection with Gordon’s demise; maybe we can talk later,” Fred said.
Chief Benson Agadaga, President of Ogbia Brotherhood, said on Friday that the news of Obua’s death came to Ogbia kingdom as a shock and had thrown the entire community into a mourning mood.
Agadaga noted that he was saddened by the development given the fact that the deceased was much younger than him.
He said: “Even though I cannot say exactly how old he was, he was several years younger than me, and in our culture, the death of a younger person is usually very painful. The CSO was like three years behind me and Ex-President Jonathan in Secondary School.
“So his death to us is shocking and sad, and we had hoped that we can leverage on his wealth of experience that culminated to his becoming the CSO to the former President to develop the Ogbia kingdom, but unfortunately he died too soon.
“The matter of life and death lies in the hands of God and has a space of time on earth and we take this as God’s making, even though he was persecuted shortly after leaving office with the former President in the so called war against corruption and detained.
“He took ill and nearly died in detention, and when he was released, he was recovering and we thought he will overcome the challenge only to hear of his death. We are down cast by this but we cannot question God.”
