Chukwuma Bamidele, the son of late Nnamdi Azikiwe,
Nigeria’s first president, is said to have died on May 10,
Sunday. Azikiwe’s first son passed away at the age of 75, The Nation
reports with reference to the family source, who pleaded for
anonymity.
The source disclosed on Monday that Bamidele had been
battling with respiratory ailment for years adding that the ex
president’s child spent his last moments at Borromeo
Hospital in the commercial city of Onitsha.
Before his death, he was addressed in Onitsha as the Owelle,
replacing his late father in 1996.
Years back in an interview with Daily Sun, the Owelle of
Onitsha said that his father’s ideology had out-lived its
usefulness and added:
“Every era carries with it peculiar problems and solution and
what was necessary at that time might not be needed in our
own era…
“My father was a pan-Africanist and a strong advocate of one
and indivisible nation. I also preach it myself, but I advise
Nigerians to play down on those things that divide us while
emphasizing the things that unite us.”

RIP