The former Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has lost his elder brother, Chief Mathias Ekweremadu, the Enugu State Commissioner for Transport. Ek
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The Ohanaeze Youth Council worldwide has sympathized with former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and the Government of Enugu State over the death of the State’s commissioner for transportation, Mr. Mathias Ekweremadu.
DAILY POST had reported that Ekweremadu slumped at the Enugu State House of Assembly, from where he was rushed to the Niger Foundation Hospital.
However, the commissioner, a younger brother to former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu didn’t make it.
Reacting, the OYC President-General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike urged Senator Ekweremadu to see it as the will of God.
He said, “we received with rude shock the sudden death of the Enugu State commissioner for transport, Hon. Mathias Ekweremadu.
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Ekweremadu, Enugu commissioner slumps, dies
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By Dennis Agbo
Chief Mathias Ekweremadu, elder brother to the former Deputy President of the Senate and Commissioner for Transport in Enugu state is dead.
Ekweremadu slumped during a budget defence in the state House of Assembly on Thursday and was rushed to
Niger Foundation Hospital, Enugu where doctors reportedly confirmed him dead.
The state government was yet to make a pronouncement on the death as at press time but a close family source confirmed to Vanguard that he died on Thursday afternoon.
Prior to his appointment as a Commissioner in 2019, Ekweremadu represented Aninri State Constituency in the State House of Assembly where he served as Chief Wipe of the Assembly between 2015 and 2019.
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Chief Mathias Ekweremadu, Enugu State Commissioner of Transport and elder brother of former President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, is dead.
Ekweremadu reportedly died at the Niger Foundation Hospital, Enugu.
The cause of his death could not be ascertained as at press time.
A source close to the deceased said that the Commissioner slumped during a meeting at the State House of Assembly Complex.
He was immediately rushed to the hospital, where doctors confirmed him dead.
Prior to his appointment as a Commissioner in 2019, Ekweremadu, represented Aninri state Constituency at the State House of Assembly.
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