The Nigerian Senator who represented Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly and Enugu State APC Governorship candidate, Senator Ayogu Eze is dead.
Eze, a former Senate spokesman, died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.
According to the source, the late Senator was sick, a situation that made him unable to attend his child’s wedding ceremony held earlier in the year in Lagos State.
He was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, before he defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, where he ran for Enugu State governorship election. in 2023
In the Senate, he was appointed chairman of the Senate committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesman of the senate in 2007.
After his re-election 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 May last year, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Eze and five others as Federal Commissioners for Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC.
Eze’s Profile
Eze attended the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, where he obtained Higher National Diploma in Mass Communications. He proceeded to International Institute for Journalism, IIJ Berlin, Germany, where he graduated on top of the G55 student stream, comprising working journalists from about 14 African countries. Eze also studied for a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Lagos.
He worked as a reporter and staff writer with the prestigious The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria from 1983 to 1989, and became the head of the Insight Team of the newspaper’s features desk before being deployed to head the Guardian Express, an evening paper from the stable, where he broke the news of the deportation of an intellectual and a critic of the military government, Patrick Wilmot, by the then Nigerian military government of General Ibrahim Babangida.
The Senator later headed the Advance Desk of the newspaper, charged with producing the first edition of The Guardian newspaper, circulated mainly in the eastern and northern parts of the country. In 1989, he moved to edit the Platform Magazine, published by late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo in Lagos.
He left the Platform Magazine in 1991 to join yet another flagship of the journalism profession, this time in the magazine sector. He joined the Newswatch magazine, easily Nigeria’s most prestigious magazine, as Associate Editor in 1991, leaving there in 1992 to join the Enugu State government as Special Adviser in General Duties to Governor Okwesilieze Nwodo.
