Ex- military governor of Akwa Ibom, Abbe dies
Godwin Abbe, a retired major-general and former minister of defence during the administration of late former President Umaru Yar’Adua, is dead.
Abbe was said to have died in Abuja on Saturday after a protracted illness.
He was also the military governor of Akwa Ibom State between 31 July 1988 and 5 September 1990 and the former military governor of Rivers from August 1990 to January 1992.
The late retired major-general was also interior minister from 26 July 2007 to 14 July 2009 under the late President Yar’Adua’s administration.
Abbe was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
An Alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, he was born on 10 January 1949 and would have been 75 in 2025.
He was also a United States Army Infantry School graduate, Fort Benning, Georgia, Ghana Armed Forces Staff College and the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.
At some point in his military career, he was the General Officer Commanding 2 Division Nigerian Army, Commander, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and Commander, National War College before he retired in 1999.
(NAN)
