Pandemoniumm reigned briefly on Friday as General Yakubu Gowon, former Nigerian Head of State slumped during the oration at the graveside of the late Major-General David Akpodiete Ejoor in Ovwor-Olomu Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.
Gowon, now in his eighties, may have suffered exhaustion that resulted in his slumping.
Military personnel and other security operators, however, made fruitless efforts to bar visual coverage of the ugly incident.
The former Head of State was promptly rushed by some top echelons of the military into the special tenth for emergency resuscitation just as Governor Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa and Chief James Onanefe Ibori, former Governor of the Delta State dashed into the tenth to ensure that he recovered.
Gowon was one of the early callers at the venue of the funeral and was well received by Governors of Delta, Edo and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.General Tukur Buratai.