APGA acting National chairman, Nwabueze Okafor, dies at 47

Nwabueze Okafor, the acting national chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, has died. He reportedly died on Sunday morning Jan. 8th following a brief illness.

His death was confirmed by his political associate, the Assistant National Financial Secretary of APGA, Okecheckwu Nkolagu, who said that Okafor died at about 8 a.m. on Sunday in Niger foundation hospital Enugu after a brief illness.



Okafor, under the APGA platform, contested for Senate in Enugu East senatorial district, but lost to his the counterpart from People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Afterwards, he was nominated as the APGA National Vice Chairman (south East) before going on to become APGA’s acting national chairman following the suspension of the embattled National chairman, Chief Ike Oye.

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.