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News reaching Chifys world just revealed that the Labour minister James Ocholi was involved in an auto mobile accident this afternoon by 3pm, along Kaduna Abuja express way. The Hon. minister and his son were said to have died on the spot while his Wife who was earlier said to be in a coma as a result of the auto mobile accident that claimed the lives of her husband and son by 3pm this afternoon, also later died in Doka General Hospital, about 60 kilometres to Kaduna, having sustained severe injuries.
He also said that the Minister’s driver was in a critical condition at the same hospital. The Hon. Minister was a senior advocate of Nigeria from Kogi state. Three days of mourning from 7 to 9th March will be observed in honour of the late Minister.
Born November 26, 1960, Mr. Ocholi was 55.
He became Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2007.
He was also the Chairman, Disciplinary Committee of the Abuja chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association.
In 2011, he was governorship aspirant in Kogi State on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change.
Between 2013 and 2014, he was deputy national legal adviser of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Last year, he sought the APC gubernatorial ticket at the party’s primary election, losing to the late Abubakar Audu. He was appointed minister in 2015.
Mr. Ocholi attended Ochaja Secondary School, and the University of Jos.
He graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 1986 and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar the same year.
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