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Special Adviser To Governor Okowa Is Dead

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Chief (Mrs.) Mary Iyasere, the Special Adviser on Entrepreneurship Development to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa is dead.

Iyasere reportedly died on Wednesday night after a brief illness.

She served as Commissioner for Commerce and Tourism during Governor Okowa’s first tenure.

She was later appointed as Special Adviser to the Governor on Entrepreneurship Development, a position she held until her passage.

Mrs. Iyasere, a lawyer, hailed from Urhuakpor community in Agbon Kingdom of Delta State.

She was an Urhobo traditional title holder of Agbon Kingdom and grassroots politician.

She founded the Ethiope East LGA-based Urhuakpor Women in Politics (UWIP).

Several sympathisers who flooded her Facebook page to mourn her death, described her as “accommodating, loving and a good soul”.

Isaac Obasi

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