The national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Ozonkpu Dr Victor Ike Oye has extolled the executive governor of Anambra State, Chief Dr. Willie Obiano for declaring every November 16th which is the birthday of the Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria and an Anambrarian, a public holiday in the State.
The APGA national chairman described this move by Governor Willie Obiano as an altruistic gesture, saying that it was only a great man that could use his political power to immortalize a man known and addressed globally as the Zik of Africa.
Mr. Oye further said that history would be kind to Governor Obiano whom, he said, had been scoring first in all humane gestures since he became the governor of Anambra State.
The APGA boss also enumerated some of Obiano’s achievements to include, being the first and only governor in Nigeria to have conducted the funeral of dead Biafran soldiers, and instituting a yearly memorial lecture in honour of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, noting that APGA government in Anambra State was delivering on all promises made to Ndi Anambra.
He then enjoined the Federal Government to follow the lead of the APGA-led government in Anambra State by declaring Zik’s birthday as a public holiday throughout the federation, emphazing that without Zik, Nigeria would not have been an independent nation.
Finally, he prayed God to grant the entire Azikiwe Family and, by extension Ndi Anambra, the fortitude to bear the irredeemable loss of this great son of Africa.
