Edet Asim the special adviser to Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade on biodiversity has died.

The former Commissioner for Information is said to have slumped and died in his car at Eta Agbor in Calabar on Tuesday evening, July 21.

Family sources said he was asthmatic but the cause of his death could not be immediately ascertained.

His remains have been deposited in the morgue.

Asim was also former chairman of Calabar Municipal Council.