The chairman, Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Mr Emmanuel Lewel is dead.

A source told DAILY POST that Lewel, who spent three months in office as the chairman of the council, died on Thursday at a private hospital in Abuja.

The source explained that Emmanuel Lewel, shortly after a meeting at the council secretariat, slumped.

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Mr Samuel Tsebe, a member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, confirmed the death of the Council chairman.

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According to Samuel Tsebe, “I lost my elder brother (Hon Emmanuel Joseph Leweh, Executive Chairman of Akwanga LGA) to the cold hands of death this evening after a brief illness.”