The wife of an elder statesman and former Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, is dead.
Mrs Njideka Ezeife died after a brief illness at a US hospital.
Already, messages of condolence have started pouring in to Dr Ezeife.
Professoe Charles Nwekeaku, Secretary of Igbo Elders Forum, said in a statement that the former Anambra First Lady had scheduled to return to Nigeria on December 13, 2021, but suddenly became sick a day before her travel and could not make it.
He prayed that God grants her soul perfect peace, as well as the fortitude to her husband and other members of his family to bear her irreparable loss.
‘With great pains and total submission to the will of God, I write to inform our distinguished Igbo Elders of the transition to the great beyond of Her Excellency, Chief (Mrs) Njideka Ezeife, former First Lady of Anambra State and wife of our Chairman, His Excellency, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife after a brief illness in the United States of America.
‘Our members are enjoined to commiserate with the Ezeife family and remember them in prayers,’ Nwekeaku said
Also, the Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Uche Ekwunife, who is also from the same community of Igboukwu with former Governor Ezeife, condoled the family, describing Mrs Ezeife as a woman of great virtue who lived a life of humility and simplicity.
“The former first lady and wife of our respected leader was an exemplary mother, loving wife and devoted christian. Her demise is a great loss to the people of Igbo-Ukwu, Old Aguata and Anambra state in general,” she said.
Senator Ekwunife prayed to God “to grant the deceased eternal rest and give those left to mourn her the courage to bear the irreparable loss.”