IKEMBA DIM ODUMEGWU OJUKWU BURIAL CELEMONY
PhotoNews: President Jonathan at Dim IKemba Ojukwu
PresidIKEMBA DIM ODUMEGWU OJUKWU BURIAL CELEMONYent Jonathan said that the achievements that set Ojukwu apart and
which had made him subject of “edifying posthumous commentaries”,
though undeniably solid were far from personal. “They were solid
altruistic achievements of a man whose life epitomized love and self
sacrifice. For only such love could explain his preference for the
great risk involved in the leadership role he assumed in his lifetime to
the privileged background into which he was born,” he said. Recalling
how Ojukwu sailed to leadership limelight and how “he reluctantly
accepted the role that perhaps most critically defined his place in the
history of our country”, the president also noted how the late Biafran
leader, “despite his reluctances, he acquitted himself quite
historically, heroically while fulfilling that role, not withstanding
the difficult odds that stood against his side” during the civil war.
“We are also aware of how after the dust of hostilities had settled, he
became strong advocate of a united Nigeria. All these governed by the
same ideals of justice and fairness to all which were the hallmark of
his vision as a patriot of humanists,” the president said." - Vanguard
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