The Chief of Staff to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Mr. Chijioke Nwakodo, is dead.
This was revealed by his younger brother, Mr. Obidike Nwakodo, while he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Umuahia.
Nwakodo, 56, died in a London hospital on Thursday evening, after a brief illness.
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The deceased who was born on March 29, 1961, is a father of two. He was appointed Chief of Staff to the governor on June 3, 2015.
He also served as the chief economic adviser to former Gov. Theodore Orji.
He was a one-time chairman of Umuahia North Local Government (1999 to 2002), where he was nicknamed “Zero allocation”.