Abuja, NIGERIA – Former Nigerian Senator Ayogu Eze, a democrat who was one of the Enugu State’s most political figures and remained active in public service long after he left office, has died. He was 66.
He was considered one of the All Progressive Congress (APC) party’s giants in Enugu State having dumped the Peopled Democratic Party (PDP) which he was a founding member.
He died in an Abuja Hospital after a protracted illness. He was born in 1958.
Senator Ayogu Eze represented Enugu North Senatorial District between 2007 to 2015.
In the Senate, he was appointed Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, making him 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 Nigeria’s 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.
Before being elected into the Senate in 2007, Eze served the Chimaroke Nnamani-led Enugu State government as the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism.
He also served as a Special Adviser to Governor Nnamani on Public Affairs before becoming a federal lawmaker.
In 2019, he contested for the gubernatorial election in Enugu State on the platform of the APC.
Although the news of his demise is now public, his family or the party are yet to make an official statement concerning his death.