Abia State PDP governorship candidate, Uchenna Ikonne, is dead

Uchenna Ikonne, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, has died at the age of 65.

Mr uche, who clinched the party’s gubernatorial ticket in 2022, died on Wednesday morning, January 25, at the National Hospital, Abuja, following a cardiac arrest.

His son, Dr Chikezie Uche, announced this in a statement. “I regret to announce the death of my dear father, Prof Eleazar Uchenna Ikonne, who died at the National Hospital Abuja today, January 25, by 4 am after a brief illness.

He was recovering after taking proper treatment in the United Kingdom but relapsed a few days ago leading to multiple cardiac arrests from which he didn’t recover from,” the statement reads.