Okezie Ikpeazu, the immidiate past governor of Abia State, has expressed sadness, the news of the passing on of Joseph Ogbonnaya Irukwu, a professor at the age of 89 years.
Ikpeazu in a press statement, signed by Onyebuchi Ememanka, his spokesman, described the late Irukwu, who was also a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as an “authentic academic Iroko tree” .