- According to the source, the undisclosed ailment prevented him from attending his child’s wedding ceremony held earlier in the year in Lagos State.
Enugu State Senator, Ayogu Eze, has reportedly passed on at the age of 66.
Eze represented Enugu North Senatorial District in the Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate.
Eze, a former Senate spokesman, reportedly died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.
A source familiar with the development disclosed that the late Senator had been battling serious health challenge for a while now.
According to the source, the undisclosed ailment prevented him from being at his child’s wedding ceremony held earlier in the year in Lagos State.
He was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, before he quit the party to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, where he ran for Enugu State governorship election.
In the Senate, he was appointed chairman of the senate committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesman of the senate in 2007.
After his reelection to the senate in 2011, he was appointed chairman of the committee on works.
Eze also served as a member of committees on Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.
In May last year, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Eze and five others as Federal Commissioners for Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC