Former coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen
Okechukwu Keshi, is dead, his family has announced.
The deceased announced his death stating that
he died of Cardiac arrest in the early hours of Wednesday June 8 2016.
“With thanksgiving to God, the Ogbuenyi
Fredrick Keshi family of Illah in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta
State, announces the death of Mr. Stephen Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi,” Mr. Ado
said in a statement.
He continued “Our son, brother, father,
father-in-law, brother-in-law, has gone to be with his wife of 35 years (Nkem
), Mrs. Kate Keshi, who passed on on the 9th December 2015.
“Since her death, Keshi has been in mourning.
He came back to Nigeria to be with her. He had planned to fly back today
Wednesday, before he suffered a cardiac arrest. He has found rest.”
Though deeply mourning the shock exit, Mr.
Ado said the family remained grateful to God for the life spent by the Big
Boss.
Mr. Keshi had lost his wife of 35 years,
Kate, to cancer last December.
He was popularly called the Big Boss, and the
only Nigerian coach to have won the Africa Cup of Nations.
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