Former Military Governor of defunct Bendel State, Chief Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, is dead.
Ogbemudia was a chieftain of the former ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Dr. Ogbemudia was born September 17 1932.
He was Military Governor (1967–1975) of the Mid-West State, later renamed Bendel State
He celebrated his 84th birthday in September 2016.
Ogbemudia joined the Nigeria army in 1957, training at Teshie, Ghana and at Netheravon and Salisbury Plain in England (1957).
He attended the officer cadet school at Aldershot, England in 1960, and was commissioned second lieutenant in 1961.
He attended the United States army special welfare school at Fort Bragg, South Carolina in 1962, and served with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Congo for 16 months, and in Tanzania in 1964.
He was appointed as an instructor to the Nigerian Military School, Zaria in 1964.
