The Commissioner for Environment in Abia, Dr. Solomon Ogunji, is dead.
His death was announced on Sunday by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, in a statement issued in Umuahia.
According to him, Ogunji died on Saturday at the Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba “after a brief illness, relating to high blood pressure”.
He said the Abia government was deeply saddened by Ogunji’s death.
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The statement read further: “Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, who received the sad news with shock yesterday (Saturday) has personally communicated and condoled with the bereaved family and he is currently in mourning.
“The state government prayed God to grant the bereaved family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.”
Late Ogunji was a senatorial aspirant in the 2019 general elections under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
He was appointed special adviser to Ikpeazu on urban renewal in 2015 and later commissioner for environment in the administration.