Nigeria’s first female governor and former governor of Anambra State Dame Virgy Etiaba has condoled with the family of Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife who died on Thursday night in Abuja hospital.
Dame in a statement she made available to NewsBand Newspaper described the death of Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife who was the first civilian governor of Anambra State as a huge shock and a great loss to the nation.
In the statement which was addressed to the Ezeife family of Igboukwu in Anambra State reads, “With immense sadness, I have received the news of the death of His Excellency Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife CON, the first democratically elected Governor of the present Anambra State. This sad news has come as a huge shock to me personally, and a great loss to the Nation in particular.
“As a technocrat and a fair minded Nationalist, Ezeife represented the best in us. He desperately wished to see a Nigeria that worked for the many and not for the few. Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife ‘Okwadike Igboukwu’, will ever be remembered for many leading roles towards the emancipation of our people, for which we remain grateful to God for his sojourn on earth.
“In the end, we all have to return to our creator and ‘Okwadike’ has only but gone ahead of all of us having fought the good fight and finished the race.
“With immense gratitude to Almighty, I remain most prayerful that our good Lord grants him eternal rest in one of his many mansions in heaven.”
Meanwhile, Ezeife’s death is coming just weeks after the interment of another former governor of the State Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju.
