One of the ranking members of the Imo Assembly, Hon. Arthur Egwim is dead.
The lawmaker, who hailed from the Orlu zone, died on Monday after he was diagnosed with cancer.
He was first elected into the Assembly in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC) and reelected in 2019 under the Action Alliance party.
He was House Committee Chairman on Finance and Public Accounts.
He was also the House Committee Chairman on Chieftaincy Affairs and Autonomous Communities and House Committee Chairman on Judiciary.
Arthur Egwim was the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) in the Ideato North federal constituency in the 2023 House of representatives election but lost to the PDP candidate, Ugochinyere Imo.
