Chief Pere Ajunwa, the Presidential Candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party of Nigeria (LDPN) and the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the 2003 and 2007 presidential elections is dead.
Though the cause of his death could not be immediately ascertained, he was said to have died Monday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The death of Chief Ajunwa was confirmed to newsmen in a statement issued in Yenagoa on Monday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Bayelsa Governor, Daniel Iworiso-Markson.
Governor Seriake Dickson in the statement, described the demise as sad, shocking and a monumental loss to the government and people of Bayelsa State. Dickson, in a condolence message to the bereaved family, also described the death of Chief Ajuwa as a great and painful loss to the Ijaw Nation and the political landscape of Nigeria.