PENGASSAN President, FOJ is dead

The President of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Comrade Francis Olabode Johnson, FOJ, is dead.

Reports say he died around 2am on Friday, after suddenly taken ill.

He was said to have been taken to a private hospital where he was later rushed to the National Hospital, Abuja.

Confirming his death in a statement by PENGASSAN Deputy President and General Secretary, Frank Esanubi and Lumumba Okugbawa, respectively, the association said “On behalf of the National Executive Council (NEC), Central Working Committee (CWC), members and staff of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), we announce the untimely and painful death of Comrade Francis Olabode Johnson, President PENGASSAN in the early hours of Friday 31st May 2019 at National Hospital Abuja, after a brief illness.

Late Comrade F.O. Johnson until his passing on was a staff of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and was on his final lap of his eventful and transformational six years tenure as President PENGASSAN, having been elected to that position in June 2014 and re-elected in 2017.

Until his sudden demise, he was rumoured to have been anointed to succeed the outgoing President of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, Bobboi Kaigama, in the June delegates conference of TUC.