President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Prof George Obiozor, is dead.
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma confirmed the news in a statement he personally signed.
He, however, did not say when Obiozor died.
Uzodinma described Igbo leader and former Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States and the State of Israel, as a renowned academic, an exceptional diplomat and statesman and a tenacious patriot.