An ex-Senator, who represented Enugu North Senatorial District between 2007 and 2015, Ayogu Eze, is dead. The Guardian gathered that the deceased, who was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), died in an Abuja Hospital after a protracted illness. Born in 1958, Eze died at 66.
While 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.
In 2015, he ran for the PDP governorship primary of Enugu State and lost to former Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuayi. Ayogu had left the PDP in 2019 to become the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu. He also lost the election to Ugwuayi.
Although the cause of his death was not disclosed, sources said that he could not attend his daughter’s wedding, which was held in Lagos two months ago due to his illness.
A writer and former Editorial Staff of The Guardian Newspaper, he served as Commissioner for Information during the administration of Chimaroke Nnamani in Enugu State.
