By Valentine Amanze
Former Minister of Education and ex-presidential candidate, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has lost her mother, Mrs. Cecilia Nwayiaka Ujubuonu.
Ezekwesili’s Spokesperson and Publicist, Mr. Ozioma Ubabukoh, disclosed this on Monday June 22, 2020.
He said that Mrs. Ujubuonu died in the late hours of Sunday, June 21, 2020. She was aged 78.
According to the spokesman, the late mother was an indigene of Ndodolu Village, Umunuko, Ukpor, in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
He said that she was widowed after the death of her husband, Benjamin Ujubuonu, in 1988.
Born on April 18, 1942, Ujubuonu, a retired businesswoman, devoted her life to her children, grandchildren, the church and service to humanity, according to the statement.
She died in the home of her daughter, Ezekwesili, in Abuja on Sunday night from cancer.
Until her death, she was a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.