“One day, Nduka Obaigbena, Tony and I travelled in Obaigbena’s private jet to Warri to meet the stakeholders; and subsequently to Abuja in an effort to achieve a cease fire and ensure peaceful resolution of the crisis. The deliberations of that first meeting, which was chaired by elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, eventually gave birth to PANDEF.”
“Obadiah Mailafia was a brilliant and articulate professional who was passionate about his love for the progress of the country.”
Atiku Abubakar while mourning said: “Even though Lady Okpara passed away at a ripe old age, death naturally diminishes our humanity and comes with grief.”
President Buhari said: “Lady Victoria’s incredible strength and exceptional courage during one of the darkest moments in our nation’s history pedestals her as a mother of the nation, God-fearing and a foremost woman of valour.”
In a moving tribute to the late Prof. Andrew Efemini, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze writes: “You are worthy of Julius Caesar’s summary of his own victory in Pontus, “Veni, Vedi, Vici” – I came, I saw, I conquered.”
“Besides their love for law and order, and the straddling recurrence of family antecedents, both Oputa and Karibi-Whyte shared a lot of similarities going back to their very formative years,” Godknows Igali writes.
The PDP mourns and condoles with Gov. Ugwuanyi over death of a committed chieftain and Board of Trustees member, Senator Fidelis Okoro.
Nigerians are mourning the death of Professor Ibrahim Alkali Ayagi, a former chairman of the country’s National Economic Intelligence Committee (NEIC).
In an emotional tribute with the title, “To My Friend, Mallam Abba Kyari,” President Buhari described the late State House Chief of Staff as “the very best of us.”
Geoffrey Onyeama wrote the following tribute to Abba Kyari: “When I got married in Owo to my wife from Idoani, Ondo State, Abba was my Best-Man. The officiating Vicar was somewhat perplexed because I was a Roman Catholic Igbo, marrying an Anglican Yoruba in an Anglican church with a Muslim Kanuri/Shuwa Arab Best-Man from Borno State!”