Commissioner for Environment in Abia State, Solomon Ogunji, has died at the Abia State University Teaching Hospital in Aba.
Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi-Kalu, confirmed this in a statement on Sunday.
Mr Okiyi-Kalu said Mr Ogunji died on Saturday “after a brief illness, relating to high blood pressure”.
He said the Abia government was deeply saddened” by Ogunji’s death, adding that the governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, had “personally communicated and condoled with the bereaved family”.
“The state government prayed God to grant the bereaved family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss,” said Okiyi-Kalu.
Ogunji was a senatorial aspirant in the 2019 general elections, seeking to represent Abia South on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He was appointed special adviser to Ikpeazu on urban renewal in 2015 and later commissioner for environment.
