Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state, Mr Paul Omotoso, is dead.

Thelagostimes gathered that Omotoso, who hailed from Imesi Ekiti, died in the early hours of Wednesday after a brief illness.

A source said that Omotoso was in the office on Tuesday and left in the evening.

However, the State publicity secretary of the party, Mr Segun Dipe, who confirmed the development to Leadership Newspaper, could not give the cause of the APC chairman’s death or any other information about the incident.

It was further gathered that the late APC chairman had been experiencing failing health since his abduction by some gunmen along Imesi-Agbado Road in July 2023.