Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has lost his Special Adviser on Entrepreneurship Development, Chief (Mrs.) Mary Iyasere. Iyasere reportedly died on Wednesday night after a brief illness.

She served as Commissioner for Commerce and Tourism during Governor Okowa’s first tenure. She was later appointed as Special Adviser to the Governor on Entrepreneurship Development, a position she held until her passage.

Mrs. Iyasere, a lawyer, hailed from Urhuakpor community in Agbon Kingdom of Delta State. She was an Urhobo traditional title holder of Agbon Kingdom and grassroots politician.

She founded the Ethiope East LGA-based Urhuakpor Women in Politics (UWIP). Several sympathisers who flooded her Facebook page to mourn her death, described her as “accommodating, loving and a good soul”.

Source: The Nation