AYOGU EZE, FORMER SENATOR, GUBER CANDIDATE, DIES AT 66

AYOGU EZE, FORMER SENATOR, GUBER CANDIDATE, DIES AT 66

Ayogu Eze, a former senator, who represented Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly between 2007 and 2015, is dead.

Ayogu Eze, who contested the governorship of Enugu State in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.

A former Commissioner for Information in Enugu State, Ayogu Eze who who went to the Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was, during his first stint in the Senate, appointed chairman of the senate committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesman of the senate.

After his reelection to the senate in 2011, he was appointed chairman of the committee on works. He also served as a member of committees on Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.

For the eight years that he was in the senate, he was a member of the Constitution Drafting and Amendment Committee that made some novel changes to Nigeria’s 1999 constitution.

Apart from politics, Ayogu Eze was an outstanding journalist and worked in several print media organisations across the country, including the Newswatch magazine.Born in 1958, Senator Ayogu Eze died at the age of 66 years.