Odey was said to have kicked the bucket on Sunday subsequent to being hospitalized for half a month over presumed disease.
The former minister was reportedly traveled to Dubai following a weakening in his wellbeing in the wake of engaging with malignancy for quite a while.
In his response, Governor Ben Ayade, in an announcement marked by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, communicated stun and pity over the passing of the previous priest, including that the news of his death was discouraging.
He depicted Odey's takeoff as a grand misfortune to the legislature and individuals of Cross River State.
Ayade stated, "We have lost a renowned child, a great minister of Cross River. Our state is in stun. Cross River is lamenting on the grounds that Odey's passing is an enormous misfortune to our dear state.
"The agony of Odey's downfall is too overwhelming in my heart to manage."
Praising the excellencies of the late priest, Ayade reviewed that Odey was a nationalist who fastidiously released the obligations allocated to him respectably.
"Not exclusively was Odey a devoted gathering man of the PDP family, he was a quintessential respectable man and a cooperative person whose engravings as the gathering's National Publicity Secretary and later, Minister of Environment, are there for anyone passing by to view," the representative included.
Odey was a previous National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party.
He likewise filled in as a treasurer of the gathering in Cross River State and in addition Commissioner for Agriculture.
He was selected Minister of Information and Communications in July 2007, and moved toward becoming Minister of Environment in December 2008 after the then President Umaru Yar'Adua reshuffled his bureau.
Odey had a Bachelor of Science qualification in Banking and Finance from the University of Calabar in 1986.
He was conceived on November 1, 1959.
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