The Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sensitisation and Mobilisation to the Kogi State Government, Hon. Excel Onuche David, has dismissed reports circulating on some media platforms alleging his death, describing them as false, reckless and malicious.

In a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, Onuche said he had been inundated with calls and messages from concerned family members, friends, associates and well-wishers following the publication.

He insisted that he is “alive, hale and hearty” and fully engaged in his official duties under the administration of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo.

According to him, the report was not only false but also a result of poor verification by those who circulated it.

“It is both shocking and irresponsible that such a sensitive story was published without any attempt at verification,” he said.