A former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, is dead.
Ezeife was elected governor of Anambra State on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from January 1992 to November 1993 during the aborted Third Republic.
His death was announced in a statement issued on Friday, on behalf of the family by Chief Rob Ezeife.
Born November 20, 1938, in Igbo-Ukwu, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ezeife died on Thursday, at the Federal Medical Centre in Abuja, at age 85.
The family said, “Arrangements for his state burial will be announced later.”
Ezeife obtained a BSc in Economics from the University College Ibadan and then attended Harvard University on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship where he obtained a Masters and then PhD degree in 1972.
He joined the civil service as an Administrative Officer and rose to the position of Permanent Secretary.
He was a school headmaster, and later a lecturer at Makarare University College in Kampala, Uganda.
Ezeife was also a teaching fellow at Harvard University, and a Consultant with Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was a Presidential Adviser on Political Matters to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.