The President-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, George Obiozor is dead.
Truth Live News learnt that Obiozor died of a heart-related disease on Monday, December 26th, at the age of 80.
According to sources from the apex Igbo group, the body would not announce Obiozor’s demise until his family formally makes the announcement.
“The man is dead but it’s not in our tradition to announce such death even when we have such information, we allow the family members to make such an announcement.
“He died on Monday of heart-related disease. I’m not specific about where he died but he travelled abroad and returned to Lagos.
“I was called in the early hours of December 26th that he died in the early hours,” a highly-placed chieftain of Ohanaeze said.
Obiozor is a Nigerian professor and diplomat. The 80-year-old was the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States of America (USA).