We join the majority of enlightened Nigerians to sincerely mourn the passage of Dr. Alex Ekwueme, a great elder statesman of Africa, who I had the honour of working closely with during his tenure as Vice President to Alhaji Shehu Shagari in the second republic.
Nigeria has just lost one of her most calmly cerebral leaders who truly cared about the Common Good and People of Nigeria.
We will miss his nationalistic viewpoint and rational perspective, which were probably products of the rare combination of being both a lawyer and an architect.
My regret is that he passed this country’s most fractious season since the civil war years; and, we won’t have his steadfast wisdom to help chart an expedited course out of these dangerous rapids of sectionalism and myopic divisiveness being encouraged by some people in Abuja!
May he rest in peace.
Shalom.
Tony I. Uranta.
Executive Secretary, Nigeria National Summit Group