Michael Okpara’s wife, Lady Adanma, dies aged 96

Lady Adanma Okpara, wife of the Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara, has died at the age of 96 is dead.

Lady Adanma who was expected to clock 97 in December 2021 reportedly died in the early hours of Sunday, August 22, 2021.

According to a village source quoted by Vanguard, the late Adanma Okpara died after a protracted illness.

The nonagenarian has been sick for some years before finally succumbing to death in an undisclosed hospital.

Attempts for formal confirmation of the demise of the late Lady Okpara were however unsuccessful as her second son, Chief Uzodinma Okpara did not pick calls put across to him by Vanguard.

Meanwhile, since the demise of her husband, Dr Michael Okpara in December 1984, the nonagenarian has lived a quiet life and rarely seen in public.

She was a strong pillar behind her husband during the political days of the 1950s and 1960s as Michael Okpara ruled the then Eastern Region with dedication and commitment to people’s welfare, centred on massive industrialization of the then Eastern Nigeria with agriculture as its centrepiece.

Her late husband, Dr Okpara was reputed for his selfless and legendary leadership which was responsible for the agricultural and infrastructural transformation ever recorded in the Old Eastern region comprising of the present South East, South South states minus Edo state.

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