Former Defence Minister and Military Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Maj Gen Godwin Abbey is dead.
General Abbey died in Abuja on Saturday after a protracted illness.
An alumnus of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Gen Abbey also served as military governor of Rivers state between August 1990 and January 1992.
He was born on January 10, 1949, and would have been 75 years on his next birthday in January 10, 2025.
At the dawn democratic partisan politics in 1999, Gen Abbey now retired, joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and served as Minister of Defence and later Minister of Interior during the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
He earned a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife.
He was also a graduate of the United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, the Ghana Armed Forces Staff College, and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.
He became General Officer Commanding, GOC, 2 Division, Nigerian Army; Commander, Training and Doctrine Command, TRADOC; and Commander, National War College.
