Power shift advocate, Agwalla, mourns Ikonne, condole with govt, Abians, family

Abia 2023 power shift advocate, Sir Dave Agwalla aka Okwadike Abia, has condoled with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia State people and the family of the Peoples Democratic Party Governorship candidate in the state, Prof. Uche Ikonne, who died early on Wednesday.

In a letter addressed to the governor, the Port-Harcourt-based businessman described Konni’s death as shocking.

The statement reads partly, “We, the entire people of Abia State, across political party and ethnic divides, are saddened by the ugly news of the passing on to the great beyond, our erudite Professor and cerebral scholar, Prof. Eleazar Uche Ikonne.

“The news came as a rude shock, which many are still struggling to grapple or come to terms with.

“Prof. Ikonne was brilliant, distinguished himself and retired at the peak of his chosen career. He touched so many lives and beyond partisan politics, was a proud and accomplished son of the state, who contributed in no small measure, to human training, growth and development.

“The Prof was definitely not tired, as he prepared to serve his people, at the highest capacity, as governor, when death came knocking so untimely.

He was already embedded into the people’s consciousness by virtue of his unconventional robust campaign, without bitterness or animosity towards anyone, to serve the state as her next governor after the elections.

“While we celebrate the life and times of the great Prof lkonne, we pray that the Lord Almighty, console his immediate family, the government and people of Abia state and repose his gentle soul, eternally.”