The Majority Leader in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Nnamdi Okafor is dead.

Before his death, Okafor, popularly called Akajiugo Awka, represented the Awka South Constituency 1 in the state Assembly.

According to an unconfirmed report, the lawmaker slumped and died in the early hours of Wednesday in a Hotel in Sandton City, Johannesburg, South Africa, and was confirmed dead hours later.

The deceased and other state lawmakers were said to have gone for a legislative retreat.

The full details of the cause of his death are yet to be ascertained at the time of filing this report.

Details later…