National Conference: Ex-Senator Replaces Late Akunyili

ALPHONSUS IGBEKE
ALPHONSUS IGBEKE

Chairman of the National Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi on Wednesday admitted a former Senator, Mr. Alphonsus Igbeke, as a substitute for the late former Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili.

The Senator, who replaces the late Akunyili as a delegate from Anambra State, was earlier seen by journalists on Tuesday when he came to complete his documentation at the Conference Secretariat, Abuja.

Senator Igbeke later confirmed that he had come to replace Akunyili at the confab.

Anambra’s slot at the conference, which is nearing its end, was reduced by one delegate following the demise of Akunyili on June 7, in an Indian Specialist Hospital. She was the third delegate to have died since the inauguration of the confab by President Goodluck Jonathan on March 17, 2014.