Senator Ayogu Eze dies at 66

Senator Ayogu Eze, who represented Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly has passed on at the age of 66 years. gathered that he died at an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.

Our reporter gathered that he died at an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.

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The late Senator who hailed from Umuida in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State was appointed chairman of the senate committee on Information and Media when he was elected into the National Assembly in 2007, 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.

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 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 and Inter-Governmental Affairs.

He was equally the pioneer Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State.