FCT, Abuja – The Atiku Media Office has announced the loss of one of its prominent and pioneer member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain, Atiku Abubakar’s media team, Ifeanyi Izeze.
Reports that Ifeanyi Izeze joined the media team of the then Vice President Atiku Abubakar in 2006, from Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Ikot-Abasi, as the office manager, according to a statement on Sunday afternoon, March 15, signed by the former vice president’s media office.
Atiku Abubakar mourns aide Ifeanyi Izeze
Atiku Abubakar mourns the loss of one of his media team members, Ifeanyi Izeze.
Atiku’s media office said the late Izeze brought to bear on the work of the media team at that critical stage of the 79-year-old’s political career, his wealth of experience in the media, the Niger Delta and Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.
Gathered that details about his burial will be made public by his family.
Late Ifeanyi Izeze’s profile
Ifeanyi trained as a geologist at the University of Port Harcourt up to postgraduate level, but carved a niche in journalism where he reported and wrote extensively on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria for many years in the defunct Sunray, Anchor, and NewAge newspapers, among others, before joining ALSCON.
In the Atiku media office, Ifeanyi was a senior member of the team and the campaign’s pioneer office manager, ‘who helped shape the campaign policies of the Atiku presidential campaign in the Niger Delta, particularly in the oil and gas sectors.’
He left behind children, grandchildren and an elder and only surviving brother, Pastor Emeka Izeze of the Guardian Newspapers fame.
Atiku said:
“A man with a prodigious sense of humour and a born-again Christian of the Christ Embassy denomination, Ifeanyi was an ordained preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.
“May God give his family, friends, and colleagues the fortitude to bear his demise.”
