There is brewing tension in Awka, Anambra state capital as the Majority Leader in the State House of Assembly Hon. Nnamdi Okafor, is said to have slumped and died in South Africa.
Okafor, popularly called Akajiugo Awka, represented the Awka South Constituency 1 in the state Assembly before he died.
Though details of his death were still sketchy as at the time of filling this report, there are some speculations in some quarters that he might had been suffering from terminal illness.
Meanwhile, an unconfirmed reports said the lawmaker slumped and died in the early hours of Wednesday in a Hotel in Sandton City, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Reports also had it that the deceased and other state lawmakers were said to have gone for a legislative retreat.