The Former senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District, Senator Ayogu Eze, has died.
The Enugu born politician according to DailyPost died at the age of 66 on Thursday.
He died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness that has kept him out of normal activities for months.
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 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 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.
