Alison Attah
The wife of the former governor of Akwa Ibom state,
Allison Attah has died.
Mrs Attah, originally from Barbados, died in a Lagos
hospital at about 3:30 p.m. on Monday after she lost a six-year long battle to a
terminal kidney condition that left her depending on regular
dialysis.
Family sources told PREMIUM TIMES in confidence that
the burial is likely to take place within the next two weeks, in line with Roman
Catholic doctrine.
The husband, Victor Attah, could not be reached to
confirm burial plans. Immediate family members said the former governor, who has
deep emotionally attachment to his departed wife, was not in a good emotional
state to attend to enquiries when our reporter called his Lagos hotel
room.
Mrs Attah, a mother of two, was a graduate of Leeds
University, UK, where she qualified as a Librarian.
While serving as the first lady of Akwa Ibom, Mrs
Attah, who had passion for child care, was chairperson, Child Development Trust,
CDT, a non governmental organization that sought to change the lives of
under-privileged rural children in Akwa Ibom through the provision of free
health care services.
“Nneyin, as she was popularly called among women and
children in Akwa Ibom will be missed by millions that her pet project touched
their lives,” Ukoh Eshiett, an Abuja-based native of Akwa Ibom said in reaction
to news of the death.
PREMIUM TIMES
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