Lady Adanma Okpara, the wife of the Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara, is dead.
Lady Okpara, who would have turned 97 in December 2021, reportedly died in the early hours of Sunday, August 22, 2021.
According to sources, the nonagenarian had been sick for some years before finally giving up the ghost in an undisclosed hospital on Sunday.
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, centered on massive industrialization of the then Eastern Nigeria with agriculture as its centerpiece.