Mary Iji, a Peoples Democratic Party Senate aspirant during the Cross River North by-election which took place in December 2020, is dead.
Iji, a lecturer at the University of Calabar, Faculty of Education, died on Tuesday morning at the General Hospital Ogoja, where she was rushed to for medical attention.
A close source, identified as Abang, said the deceased complained of mild headache and body weakness and was taken to hospital where she gave up the ghost.
He said, “She came to Ogoja last week to bury the younger brother and has been hale and hearty until yesterday (Monday) evening when she complained of headache and body weakness and was taken to the General Hospital for attention but her situation got worse at night and she died”.
“Her body has been deposited in the General Hospital Ogoja mortuary.”
Iji, who is the wife of Professor Maurice Iji, Dean, Faculty of Political Science in the University of Calabar, contested the PDP primary election for Cross River North by-election and came third.
