‘We’ve lost a well-fulfilled man’ — Ohanaeze Ndigbo mourns ex-president Irukwu | TheCable
July 9, 2023 5:57 PMthat Irukwu, whose death was announced on Saturday by Harrison Eze Okorie, president of Amaokwe Item Welfare Union, was 89 years old when he died.
“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has received with rude shock, the sad news on the passing of one of our brightest, an accomplished legal luminary, moral edifice, insurance and risk management wizard, erudite scholar of world renown, Igbo leader and former president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, professor Joe Ogbonna Irukwu, SAN, CFR,” the statement reads.“Irukwu was elected the president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in 2003 and he served meritoriously and bowed out in 2007.
“In the same year, before the expiration of his tenure, Irukwu led other Igbo leaders to commission a multi-million naira complex comprising of a 1,500-seater auditorium, library and conference room which he built single-handedly as part of his own legacies to the Igbo man’s quest for equitable recognition and accommodation in the Nigerian polity.
“Irukwu resisted the lure by Dr M. I Okpara, the then Premier of the Eastern Region, to join partisan politics; instead, he chose to pursue his dream of applying his knowledge in Law to build an enviable insurance industry in Nigeria.
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