Apex northern socio-cultural organisation, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has mourned Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh, describing him as a great nationalist.
In a condolence message issued by the forum’s national publicity secretary, Prof. T. A. Muhammad-Baba, the forum expressed shock over the death of Ogbeh.
The ACF said Chief Ogbeh who served as the chairman of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the forum from 2020 to 2023 was also the deputy chairman of the Advisory Committee working to celebrate the ACF’s 25th anniversary slated for later this year.
ACF added, “ACF’s celebration of the late Chief Ogbeh is therefore one to a man who had paid his dues well. He was certainly a nationalist and a committed son of Arewa. He was a passionate and a large-scale farmer, indeed one of the biggest farmers in Nigeria.
“His was therefore a life well led in the service of Nigeria, nay, humanity. As the family mourns this irreparable loss, ACF sends its condolences. ACF also condoles the government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Arewa, Benue State as well as his numerous friends across Nigeria and beyond. May Almighty God in His infinite mercies grant him peaceful repose. May God be with his family in this diffucult time.”
