A former information minister during Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s regime and later Military Administrator of Rivers State, Brig.-Gen. Anthony Ukpo (rtd), is dead.
He reportedly died, on Monday morning.
Constitutional lawyer and Secretary of the Ogoja State Creation Committee, Leonard Anyogu, which was chaired by Ukpo, confirmed the former military administrator’s death.
Last week, two of his elder siblings died.
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Anyogu disclosed that Ukpo died early Monday morning in a hospital.
He said that Ukpo died as a result of lingering sickness.
He said, “I can confirm that the former Milad died this morning. He died in a hospital, this morning.
