A former spokesperson of the Senate, Ayogu Eze, is dead.
Eze, aged 65 reportedly died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.
He represented Enugu North during the 6th Senate and 7th Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP).
He was a founding member of the PDP before he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), where he ran for the Enugu state governorship election.
During his time in the Senate, he was appointed chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesperson of the Senate in 2007.
After his reelection to the Senate in 2011, he was appointed chairman of the Committee on Works.
Eze also served as a member of the Senate Committees on Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport, and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.
In May last year, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Senator Eze and five others as Federal Commissioners in the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).