By Charles Igbo
For the family of the late Premier of the defunct old Eastern Region, Michael Okpara, popular as M.I. it is yet another mourning period, this time of a younger person.
While preparations are on for the funeral of the family’s matriarch, and former First Lady of the Eastern Region, Lady Adanma Okpara, slated for December 18, 2021, M.I. and Adanma’s first son, Nnawuihe, passed on in the United States of America where he resided with his family.
An Aeronautical Engineer, Nnawuihe was said to be coordinating activities for his mother’s funeral when he took ill.
The cause of his death, which has devastated and destabilized the family, is not yet public, but this medium gathered that he had been suffering from an undisclosed illness.
He was married with three children, and died aged 71 years.
