Chief Chijioke Nwakodo, the Chief of Staff to the Governor of Abia state, Okezie Ikpeazu is dead. He died in a London hospital on Thursday evening, his younger brother, Mr Obidike Nwakodo, said on Friday in Umuahia.


Nwakodo further said that the news of his death was communicated to the family on Thursday evening.

He said that arrangements were on to formally convey the message of his death to the governor. Nwakodo, a father of two, was appointed Chief of Staff to the governor on June 3, 2015.

He was a one-time chairman of Umuahia North Local Government (1999 to 2002), where he was nicknamed “Zero allocation”. The deceased also served as the chief economic adviser to former Gov. Theodore Orji.

He was 56.