IDA keeps condolence registers open across 19 Northern States for Late Ezeife

The Igbo Delegates Assembly (IDA) has stated that condolence registers opened at the death of the former Governor of Anambra State, the late Chukeuemeka Ezeife, remain open in all the capitals of the 19 Northern States.

The registers were opened to pay respect to the late former governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife.

The disclosure was made by the President General of the Igbo Delegates Assembly (IDA), Chief Kenneth Okeugo, in an interview with journalists in Gombe on Friday.

Recall that the late Chukeuemeka Ezeife, aged 86, died at the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja, on Thursday, December 15, 2023.

According to him, “Igbos in the North are still mourning Chief Ezeife like any other person because he is an icon.

“Since his death, we have opened a register in all the state capitals in the 19 Northern States for those who want to come and pay their last respect to a patriotic Igbo man who stood for the cause of Igbo, even at his personal cost.”

He added that “the register is still open for some time now, and we urge our people to sign the register and pay their last respects.”

Kenneth Okeugo said that the news came through the President of Ndigbo in Abuja, who called him to inform him of the passing of Chief Ezeife.

He added, “We lost a great leader. We should emanate from Chief Ezeife. This was a man who had worked hard for our country and the cause of the Igbo. We pray to God to console his family for the irreparable loss.”

“I urge all Igbos to walk in his footsteps, and your community will never forget you. The age at which he died is ripe old age. We thank God for his life because he lived well,“ he added.

The IDA President urged that, like the late Ezeife, leaders should give selfless service, saying, “We should, as leaders, take ourselves back and work for our people. Now Ezeife is being celebrated all over the North.”

According to him, “It is not because he had money, but because anytime you called upon him if there was any issue, he would answer and give you a solution. That is why we are condoling his family. That is why we are calling on our leaders to put self- and monetary gain last.”

Kenneth Okeugo then assured that Igbo in the North would participate actively in the final burial programme of the former Anambra State Governor.

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