By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, the Nigeria’s ex-Ambassador to Spain and widow of the late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has commended the former Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, for his efforts in immortalizing Ojukwu and ensuring that his memories are not eroded, while carpeting Governor Willie Obiano.
Bianca, in a statement, revealed that the legacies of her husband were being eroded, particularly in Anambra State while berating Governor Willie Obiano for deriding Ojukwu and not living up to the expectations of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as a party.
She lamented that the present APGA leadership had not held a remembrance event in honour of the late Ojukwu, but would always roll out his pictures for campaign during elections.
“The last remembrance event that was conducted in Anambra State to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu by APGA-led government was in March 2013 under Governor Peter Obi, but it still doesn’t stop this Anambra State government from rolling out his pictures for campaign purposes whenever the elections come up”, she said.
Bianca pointed out that to immortalise Ojukwu, Obi re-named the former Anambra State University to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, University, stressing that Odumegwu Ojukwu’s birthday anniversary is being held in the university every year in honour of the great Igbo leader.
It would be recalled that Obi in 2012, as the governor of Anambra State, also constructed and re-named the dual carriage way from Onitsha Bridge Head to Upper Iweka and other critical roads in the state to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Boulevard, amid having his statue in strategic places in the state. Commissioning the dual carriage road on August 30, 2012, Obi said that part of his reasons for naming the road to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Boulevard was to leave behind, projects that would keep alive the memories of Ojukwu, whose great sacrifices for the Igbo nation, should never be forgotten.