Senator Ayogu Eze is dead. He represented Enugu North Senatorial District of Enugu State in the Senate from 2007 to 2015.
Senator Eze, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), died in an Abuja hospital after a long battle with an undisclosed illness.
According to the source, the late Senator has been down, a situation that made him unable to attend his child’s wedding ceremony held earlier in the year in Lagos State.
Aged 66, Ayogu 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.
Born on Nivember 25, 1958, Eze, an accomplished Journalist, who had worked with National Media Houses including the defunct Newswatch, joined politics and represented Enugu Senatorial District in the Senate from 2007 to 2015 on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
However, he was not able to have any other successful outing, politically, after his second term as a Senator ended in 2015. His aspiration to be the Governor of Enugu State did not materialise the two times he tried.
In the Senate, the former journalist was appointed chairman of the senate committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesman of the senate in 2007.
After his reelection 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.
