It is said that there is never a better time to die but the passing unto eternal glory of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo)
It is said that there is never a better time to die but the passing unto eternal glory of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu , a few days ago is an appropriate illustration of a brilliant actor quitting the stage
As it is, what Ndigbo lost in Chief Iwuanyanwu’s unsuccessful bid to become the president of Nigeria they seem to have gained in the brief period he headed the Igbo nation’s apex socio-cultural body – the Oheneze Ndigbo. His road map as President-General of the body was headed for an unprecedented transformation of Igboland.
To be sure, past President-Generals of OhanezeNdigbo did quite creditably well but it would appear that providence was waiting for a time like this to throw up a fellow like Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu to lead Ndigbo.
Agreed, there are some younger Igbo elements who have shown tremendous flair for national leadership but it will take quite some time for any of them to step into the shoes left behind by Chief Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Iwuanyanwu CFR, CON, OFR, MFR, Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo. As a matter of fact, Odukamaiya, a brilliant journalist, nationalist and now an elder statesmen, was once reported as saying that the reason he accepted the offer to serve as the pioneer Managing Director and Editor-In-Chief of the newspaper was because it offered him an opportunity to have a close relationship with the Igbo.
In politics, Chief Iwuanyanwu was an epitome of the “politics without bitterness” mantra. He pursued his presidential ambition with a pan-Nigerian zeal and never betrayed any clannish or parochial proclivities In a sense, therefore, Chief Iwuanyanwu can be credited as one of the heroes of the Fourth Republic. Had he grandstanded and used his enormous political and economic weight to resist that development, there could have arisen a crisis within the APP and which might have snowballed into a national scale and perhaps the transition, from the military to civilian government, might not have been as effortless as was witnessed.
The Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo worked till the very end. His last official outing was just a few weeks before his hospitalisation and during which he inaugurated the Ohanaeze Committee for the restructuring of Nigeria with me as a member and headed by former governor of Enugu state, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo. Film production and distribution company, Filmone Limited, has announced the appointment of Ladun Awobokun as Chief Content Officer of the company.
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