Nigeria would have broken into pieces but for Ahmed Joda, Obasanjo mourns - Punch Newspapers
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has described as “heartbreaking”, the death of elder statesman Ahmed Joda, who died on Friday at the age of 91.
The ex-President explained that the late former Federal Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information saved the unity of Nigeria shortly after the 1966 coup d’état when others insisted that Nigeria should collapse. “Oh! What a heartbreaking news, that my friend for well over 60 years has passed to the great beyond. If every Nigerian have the attributes of Joda, Nigeria will have been better than what it is now.
He said that they met when he was a Second Lieutenant in the Nigeria Army and Joda was a Deputy Chief Information Officer in the Federal Civil service.
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