Former presidential candidate, and Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, recently lost her mother to cancer. 

An unofficial press statement was released by Ezekwesili’s Publicist on Monday. It was stated that the Minister’s mother had passed on.

Mrs. Cecilia who died aged 78, lost the battle to cancer.

Mrs. Cecilia, died in the arms and home of her daughter, Ezekwesili, in Abuja, from cancer.