The stage is set for the commencement of a
grand farewell to the late Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu with the declaration of a
seven-day prayers and mourning, beginning
from Thursday, December 1.
Ojukwu died last Saturday morning in a London
hospital. He was flown out of the country on
December 23 last year, following a stroke.
The prayer and mourning period was declared
yesterday at a press conference addressed at the
Casa Bianca, Enugu residence of the late Ikemba
Nnewi, by the leader of the Movement for the
Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.
The prayer session was also endorsed by the
Chairman, South-east Governors’ Forum and
Anambra State Governor, Mr Peter Obi, who
returned from London yesterday morning and
arrived at Ojukwu’s house shortly after the
conference ended.
“I just came back this morning, everybody is
aware of his death. We are all in mourning
mood, Igboland is in mourning mood, Nigeria is
in mourning mood. He (Uwazuruike) declared
prayers, which all must follow/ We need prayers
for our leader, it is seven days of prayers and
every Igbo person should support that,”
Governor Obi said before he proceeded to Abuja
to officially inform President Goodluck Jonathan
of the demise of the Ezeigbo Gburugburu.