APGA, Okorie mourn Nigeria’s first Aviation Minister

This is contained in separate statements on Tuesday in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of APGA, Barrister Tex Okechukwu, and another personally signed by Chief Okorie.

According to a release by the family, signed by Ezeana Tagbo Amechi, Chief Amechi died in the early hours of Tuesday aged 93.

Chief Amechi, Nigeria’s first Aviation Minister, was described as a nationalist and the only surviving member of the Zikist Movement.

The APGA spokesman, Barrister Okechukwu, said APGA was deeply touched by the death of the last of the ‘Titans that laboured tirelessly for the independence of our fatherland’.

The party thanked God for the fulfilled life led by the deceased and urged his children to follow his footsteps by ensuring that the legacies for which he lived and died were not abandoned.

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Chief Okorie on his part, said that he received the news of the death of Chief Amaechi with sadness.

He said, “Although he enjoyed the special grace of God to live up to the ripe old age of 93 years, yet by his passing he left such a huge void that will be difficult to fill for a long time. His invaluable contributions and interventions in public discourse became better as he aged.

“I recalled how and why Ohanaeze was formed, which was originally known as IGBO FORUM in 1976 when it was formed until 1979 when it was renamed Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

“I was then the youngest member of the organization which was then an elite group. I handled most of the errands of the organization. I was then a young undergraduate at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. I informed them that the 1976 class of what later became Ohanaeze, had only Chief Mbazulike Amaechi and my humble self, alive.

“’The boy is good’ as he was popularly known in his hay day when he became a cabinet minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the youthful age of 24 years old will be greatly missed, especially his wise counsel to Ndigbo and every Nigerian government.”