The People’s Democratic Party PDP has lost the Abia State gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 election, Prof. Eleazar Uchenna Ikonne.
The party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, expressed shock at the sad news, in a statement on Wednesday January 25, 2023.
“I am shocked and saddened at the loss of Prof. Eleazar Uchenna Ikonne, the governorship candidate of the PDP in Abia State,” Atiku said.
According to Atiku, Prof Ikonne was an erudite scholar of repute with vast experience in administration.
He noted that his contributions to advancing knowledge within the academic community will be appreciated by generations unborn.
“I recall my last encounter with Prof Ikonne vividly when he led a delegation of Abia PDP stakeholders to my residence in Abuja.
“He, Prof Ikonne, was at his intellectual best in the course of the robust discussion that I had with his delegation. We shall miss his ever-smiling face, wit and sense of humour, which always stood him out,” Atiku said.
“I express my deepest condolences to his immediate family, all PDP members in Abia State and the government and good people of Abia state, who were working on voting him into power next month,” Atiku added.
