{"id":175958,"date":"2025-08-24T22:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/elder-brother-of-ex-benue-speaker-dajoh-dies"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:52:22","slug":"elder-brother-of-ex-benue-speaker-dajoh-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/elder-brother-of-ex-benue-speaker-dajoh-dies","title":{"rendered":"Elder Brother of Ex-Benue Speaker Dajoh Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Tragedy has struck the family of Hon. Aondona Dajoh, the immediate past Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, following the sudden death of his elder brother, Elder Gwamile Dajoh.<\/p>\n<p>Elder Gwamile reportedly collapsed and died on Sunday, just hours after his younger brother tendered his resignation as Speaker of the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding the incident remain scarce at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p>The late Elder Dajoh was said to have been deeply concerned over the political crisis in the House prior to his sudden passing.<\/p>\n<p>His death follows Hon. Aondona Dajoh\u2019s resignation, which paved the way for the election of Hon. Alfred Berger as the new Speaker during an emergency plenary session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Tragedy has struck the family of Hon. Aondona Dajoh, the immediate past Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, following the sudden death of his elder brother, Elder Gwamile Dajoh. Elder Gwamile reportedly collapsed and died on Sunday, just hours after his younger brother tendered his resignation as Speaker of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[331,1578,18542,254],"class_list":["post-175958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-benue","tag-breaking","tag-hon-aondona-dajoh","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elder Brother of Ex-Benue Speaker Dajoh Dies - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tragedy has struck the family of Hon. 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