NIGERIA’s Second Republic Vice- President, the late Dr
Alexander Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme (GCON), who departed the mortal plane on
November 19, 2017, will be committed to mother earth today in his home town,
Oko in Anambra State. Though relatively advanced in years at the age of 85,
Nigerians will for long miss a highly revered elder statesman who occupied a
central place in the evolution of our democracy and the search for a stable,
progressive nation. Soft-spoken and amiable, Ekwueme did not cut the picture of
a political firebrand. But he never failed to seize the political limelight
whenever he ascended the political stage. Like a bolt from the blue, he emerged
as the country’s first Vice-President, having been elected to that position
along with President Shehu Aliyu Shagari in 1979 on the platform of the defunct
National Party of Nigeria, NPN.
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