By Osagie Alonge
Former biafran leader and politician Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu has been reported dead, Nigerian national newspaper Thisday has reported.
Reports have it that the leader of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) died last night in a London hospital. He passed away at the age of 78 years. According to online news agency Sahara Reporters, source within the family says that the ‘Ikemba Nnewi’ died ‘in the UK after months of hospitalization to treat the effects of a serious stroke he had suffered late last year’. It has also been reported that Mr. Emeka Ojukwu, Jr. son of the late politician has issued a statement confirming his father’s death.
Ojukwu who was appointed Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria by Military Head of State, General Aguiyi Ironsi on January 17, 1966, led the establishment of Biafra, a secessionist state in South Eastern Nigeria, an event that sparked the Nigerian Civil War.
Odumegwu-Ojukwu is married to the former Bianca Onoh, the first Miss Intercontinental 1989. In January 2011 Bianca was appointed Senior Special Assistant, Diaspora Affairs to the president Goodluck Jonathan.
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11 comments
It’s very sad dat our dear country lost another great Man but also we give glory to d almighty God. May his soul rest in perfect peace. Amen!
Biafaras will everly mourn for u.
I cry like a baby when i heard of ojukwu dead.. I lv him peasonaly bt as a human we re bound to die. Gud bye ikemba we luv u bt God luv u d most till we meet again..ka emesia
God has d final statement. May his SOUL REST IN PEACE. Oh, oh, oh..
RIP Ikemba 1…d Don of IgboLand! May his soul rest in perfect peace…
I cry when i heard the, pass away,ikemba Ndi Igbo. BIAFARAS we have lose one in milion our hero, Dim! oke osisi aden, biafaras mourn you. May your soul rest in perfect peace Amen. Gankeoma.
I was a young man when the civil war started ojukwus action of causing the war and the killing of almost 2 million people without any gain created a non patriotic society that led to the juntas of the 60’s to keep raping us nigerians till now the war came too early for a young nation that wasn;t ready for war
I cry for our fada Chief Ojukwu, the Ikemba of Nnewi, he was a leader, though some people would say dat he caused the deaths of many, but he did for a just cause, anybody who says what he did was not right, has no sense of reasoning. Oh, i just wish he could complete what he started, he fought for a good cause and i wish he had succeded,i support him, what he was doing was right. I don’t no how to express myself with words so i decided to do dat here. We will miss u CHIEF and we all hope you rest in peace, goodbye Ikemba RESPECT from your son JINDU,daddy gudnite.
We luv ojukwu
Ikemba was an undefited hero in d nation Nigeria. Eze Lenard (Leo)
I like him