Arthur Egwim, a ranking lawmaker at the Imo state House of Assembly, is dead.

Egwim reportedly died on Monday days after he underwent surgery in Lagos.

Until his death, he was the member representing Ideato North Constituency at the state House of Assembly.

He was first elected into the state House of Assembly in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress and was reelected in 2019 with the Action Alliance party.

He contested the House of Representatives’ seats in the just-concluded National Assembly elections under the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance but failed.

He fell ill recently and underwent surgery but died afterwards, a source who doesn’t want to be mentioned confided in our correspondent on Monday night.