Chike Akunyili, husband to the late former minister of information and communication, Dora Akunyily has been reportedly shot dead by gunmen.
According to family source, the medical doctor was shot on Tuesday night near Onitsha, the commercial hub of Anambra.
“He went for his late wife’s memorial lecture in Onitsha and was going back to Enugu, that was when the thing happened. He was shot dead by gunmen. I don’t know how it happened,” the source added.
He was said to have been killed alongside his police escort and one Aloysius, identified as his driver.
His wife, a former director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), died in an Indian hospital on June 7, 2014 at the age of 57 after a prolonged ailment.
She was the DG of NAFDAC from 2001 to 2008.
Chike and his late wife had six children.
After the death of his wife, Chike described her as âan elephant who loved her country even during her travails”.
âHer love for Nigeria was phenomenal and beyond words; even in her last days when she was very ill, she insisted that she would serve the country with her last breath.
âShe wanted a home called Nigeria where citizens could live and enjoy,â he had said.
