By Emeka Okafor
Mr Udo Ekpenyong, Akwa Ibom State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, is dead.
Ekpenyong, a former commissioner of local government and chieftaincy affairs in the State, died on Tuesday morning.
The deceased who hailed from Ukanafun Local Government Area of the state is said to have been sick for weeks before his passage.
Sources who confirmed the demise of the politician said it was not true that Ekpenyong died of COVID-19.
One of the sources disclosed that the PDP chair had been sick before giving up the ghost on Tuesday morning.
The late commissioner emerged the chairman of PDP during the last congress of the party in the state.
