Senator Ayogu Eze

Senator Ayogu Eze, a former lawmaker who represented Enugu North Senatorial District between 2007 to 2015, is dead.

The former senator who was a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) died in an Abuja Hospital after a protracted illness.

Born in 1958, Eze died at 66.

Although the cause of his death was not disclosed, sources stated that he could not attend the daughter’s white wedding held in Lagos two months ago due to his illness.

The former lawmaker was a writer and former editorial staff of The Guardian Newspaper.

While in the Senate, he was appointed chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media as the official spokesman of the Senate.

For the eight years he spent in the Senate, he was a member of the Constitution Drafting and Amendment Committee that made some novel changes to Nigerias 1999 constitution.

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 2015, he ran for thePDP governorship primary of Enugu state and lost to immediate past governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuayi.

Ayogu had left the PDP in 2019 to become the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu state. He also lost the election to Ugwuayi

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