Today is the 86^th born day of our noble and charismatic Leader, His Excellency, Okwadike Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife CON.

Okwadike is an extraordinary human being and supreme advocate for the downtrodden, the voiceless, the oppressed, the suppressed, the deprived and a veritable conscience of the nation.

Ezeife was a former Federal Super Permanent Secretary and the first Executive Governor of Anambra State; a former Presidential Adviser, co-founder of Southern and Middle Belt Forum; former Presidential Candidate, Leader of Igbo Elders Consultative Forum and co-Chairman of Eminent Elders Forum, among so numerous others.

His Excellency Ezeife Is humility and simplicity personified!

He has seen it all in life even in very high and mighty places but yet chose to live a very simple and ordinary life devoid of any ostentation, sophistication and paraphernalia of high offices he has been opportune to hold in the past and now.

A classic lovely family man and lover of humanity, Ezeife is an enigma, an amozon, a pathfinder, an epitome of good conscience and a father to all.

A very distinguished traditional title holder across the county, and a completely de-tribalized persona, Ezeife is a generational role model par excellence.

A pacesetter, a selfmade personality and a distinguished PhD alumnus of the prestigious Harvard University USA, Okwadike Ezeife is one of the rare patriots in Nigeria who didn’t amass ill-gotten money while in all the high offices he has ever occupied.

As the first Executive Governor of Anambra State, Ezeife never collected any salary throughout his tenure in office.

Please, join me to celebrate this man of the people, a torchbearer and a personification of amity with very high integrity factor, who has continued to serve humanity selflessly even at old age but yet very young at heart!

Your Excellency, Okwadike Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife CON, I wish you many more happy returns of the day, long life with excellent health and diverse prosperity in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ!

Please, receive 86 THUNDEROUS ‘GBOSA’!

•Prof Echefuna’ R G ONYEBEADI intended this tribute to be published yesterday, Thursday, November 23, 2023.

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