BREAKING: PDP Chairman Dies Of Coronavirus

PDP Chairman Dies Of Coronavirus.

OnyxNews Nigeria reports that the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Udo Ekpenyong, is dead.

Udo Ekpenyong

Mr Ekpenyong died on Monday in Uyo, an official of the Akwa Ibom government confirmed this on Tuesday morning.

According to the official who prefers to be anonymous said the chairman died of COVID-19, but yet to independently verify this information.

Before Ekpenyong’s death, he was the commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, before his election as the state as PDP Chairman in 2020.

He was known to be a strong loyalist to Governor Udom Emmanuel.

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This online news platform can recall recently, that the South South State lost two other prominent personalities recently, a former Chief of Air Staff, Nsikak Edouk who died of renal failure, and a former military governor of the state, Idongesit Nkanga who also died of coronavirus.