BY FESTUS AHON
UGHELLI— CHAIRMAN of defunct Federal Electoral Commission, FEDECO, Justice Ovie Whiskey (rtd) is dead. He died, yesterday, aged 89.

Justice Whiskey, who retired as Chief Justice in the defunct Bendel State in 1983, died after a protracted illness.

He died in his Ikweghu-Agbarho residence. He was appointed as chairman of FEDECO in 1982 and conducted the second election during the second republic, which saw the emergence of Alhaji Shehu Shagari as President for a second term in office.

Justice Whiskey, who hails from Ikweghu-Agbarho in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, is survived by wife and  children.

At press time,  sympathertisers were trooping into his Ikweghu-Agbarho residence in their numbers.

His body, according to a family source had been deposited at the Shell Mortuary, Ogunu, near Warri, Delta State.

The source told Vanguard on telephone at 8:05pm, that the family was yet to meet on his death, adding that the family would soon come up with a detailed report on the death of the former  chairman of FEDECO, whose service was cut short on December 31, 1983, when military junta took over government.