UPDATE: Rivers council chair dies

Chairman of Asari Toru Local Government Area in Rivers State, Odiari Princewill, is dead.

He died on Wednesday at about 10 pm and was buried on Thursday at the Port Harcourt Cemetery.

Sources said Princewill took ill for some days and was receiving treatment at an undisclosed facility.

His death was said to have shocked residents of the council, who described him as a true loyalist of Governor Nyesom Wike.

Source - thenation