One of the ranking lawmakers at the Imo state House of
Assembly, Arthur Egwim, is dead.
Our correspondent gathered that Egwim died on Monday days
after he underwent a surgery in Lagos.
Until his death, he was the member representing Ideato North
Constituency at the state House of Assembly.
He was first elected into the state House of Assembly in
2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress and was reelected in 2019
with the Action Alliance party.
He contested the House of Representatives seat in the
just-concluded National Assembly elections under the platform of All
Progressives Grand Alliance but failed.
He fell ill recently and underwent surgery but died
afterwards, a source who doesn’t want to be mentioned confided in our
correspondent on Monday night.
A lawyer by profession, the deceased was a vocal voice in
the eight and night assemblies of the state parliament.
The source said, “They just broke the bad news to us this
afternoon (Monday). He was flown abroad before for treatment. Money wasn’t the
problem. The state government greatly assisted him to travel abroad for his
medicals. It is very sad.”
Meanwhile, the speaker of the state House of Assembly, Emeka
Nduka, has described as shocking Egwim’s death.
In a statement he personally issued on Tuesday, the speaker
described Egwim as one of the finest brains among the 27 lawmakers.
The statement read, “With heavy heart, but with total submission to the will of God, we, the
members of Imo State House of Assembly, wish to announce the death of one of
our own, a ranking parliamentarian of note and a strong voice in IMHA, Rt. Hon Barr Innocent Arthur Egwim, who untill his
death he represented Ideato State Constituency,, whose sudden death took place
on Monday, the 27th March, 2023 after a
brief illness.
“Imo House of Assembly has indeed lost one of its finest and best brains. His demise
will for a long time create a vacuum in
the House.
“May his gentle soul rest in peace and may God grant his
wife and members of his family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. We’ll miss him dearly.The burial
arrangements will be announced by the family in due course.”
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