NATIONAL CONFERENCE: LATE PROF DORA AKUNYILI REPLACED

Chairman of the ongoing National Conference and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Kutigi on Wednesday admitted Senator Alphonsus Igbeke as replacement for a former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili.

Igbeke’s name was announced to the plenary by Kutigi amidst applause and clapping of hands from fellow delegates.

The Senator who represented Anambra North Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party was earlier sited by journalists on Tuesday evening when he came to finalize his documentation with  the Conference Secretariat.

He later confirmed that he has replaced Akunyili in the confab.

Akunyili, a delegate representing Anambra State in the confab and former Director-General of the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration died on Saturday June 7, was the third delegate to die since the inauguration of the confab by President Goodluck Jonathan.

She was said to have died in a specialist Hospital in India “after a two-year battle with cancer.” Source: www.247ureports.com.