WARRI –  FORMER chairman of the Senate Committee on Niger-Delta and prominent Urhobo leader in Delta State, Senator Fredrick Ayo Aghogho Brume is dead.

He died on Monday, September 12, 2011 following a brief illness. A family source confirmed that Senator Brume died of heart-related complications at about 1pm.

A devoted Christian, he was born into the Brume family of Ubogo and Egini in Udu Local Government Area, Delta State on September 25, 1942.

Former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi told Vanguard, “I received the news of the death of Senator Brume with rude shock and pain. His death calls for sober reflection and recalculation. He labored and worked all his life believing in perfection, but unfortunately, he died the way he died. What happened to Chief Brume should make us to pulse in our activities on the earth planet and do constant medical check-up even if it means going to the best hospital in the world”.

“He was a bosom friend of mine and a personal brother and I say with accent, he was a man of integrity. He was the only person that came to tell me that what I said would happen in the political firmament of the state, over 12 years ago, all came to pass and that he thought he knew it all, but have seen that I spoke with hindsight about the problem we are passing through in the state long before they happened. He was an honest and altruistic-minded man”, he added.

Delta North leader, Senator Nosike Ikpo shouted on phone when Vanguard sought his comments yesterday, asking, “What is happening to us in Delta state, we just lost Chief James Otobo, the former deputy premier of the defunct Midwest region”.