Igbo Assembly Opens Condolence Register for Ex-Anambra Gov, Ezeife

The Igbo Delegates Assembly (IDA) has opened a condolence register in all 19 northern states for sympathisers to pay last respect to a former Anambra State governor, Chukwuemeka Ezeife.

President-general of the Igbo Delegates Assembly (IDA), Chief Kenneth Okeugo disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Gombe.

“Igbos in the north are still mourning Chief Ezeife like any other person because he is an icon. Since his death, we have opened a register in all the state capitals in the 19 northern states for those who want to come and pay their last respect to a patriotic Igbo man who stood for the cause of Igbos, even at his cost.

“The register is still open for some time now and we urge our people to sign the register and pay their last respects,” he said.

The president-general urged that like Ezeife, leaders should render selfless services to humanity saying, “We should as leaders take ourselves back and work for our people. Now Ezeife is being celebrated all over the north. It is not because he had money but it is because anytime you called upon him, if there was any issue, he would answer and give you a solution.”

Okeugo assured that Igbo in the north would participate actively in the burial of the former Anambra governor.

LEADERSHIP Sunday reports that Ezeife, 86, died in December last year at the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja.