Ahead of the general elections, an APC chieftain, Mrs Esther Bassey, the chairman of Cross River State’s Calabar South Local Government Area, dies in her sleep in Calabar.
The information gathered was that Bassey died after attending a presidential election meeting to discuss perfect strategies concerning Saturday’s election.
According to one of the late chairman’s aides who commented on the development, saying the late chairman known as Queen of the South, was in good health the previous night.
He said, “She attended a series of meetings to prepare for tomorrow’s presidential election. She held some meetings yesterday close to the night.
“She showed no signs of exhaustions or sickness when she retired later in the evening”, one of the aides said.
It was gathered from the reports that, the former council boss died in her sleep around 4 a.m. in Calabar.
The deceased belonged to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)