Edo, Delta to give Ogbemudia state burial => http://gistpage.com.ng/thread/post/13-03-17-edo-delta-to-give-ogbemudia-state-burial







LATE former military governor of defunct
Midwest and Bendel states, Dr Samuel
Ogbemudia, will be given state burial by
Edo and Delta states, even as the burial
arrangements will be announced today
This came as more condolences messages
continued to pour in, with former Military
Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida,
(rted), describing the late Dr Ogbemudia
as a great patriot that would be missed by
Nigerians for a long time, saying
Ogbemudia was his leader.



It was gathered, yesterday, that Edo and
Delta states are collaborating to give the
two-time governor of the defunct Midwest
and Bendel states a state burial.

According reports, the corpse of the
deceased will arrive Benin Airport from
Lagos tomorrow and will be received by
Governors Godwin Obaseki and Ifeanyi
Okowa of Edo and Delta states respectively.

Meanwhile, Governor Godwin Obaseki has
set up a 13-member committee for Dr
Ogbemudia’s burial headed by the Secretary
to State Government, Mr Osarodion Ogie.

The committee is to liaise with the
Ogbemudia family to give the elder
statesman a befitting burial slated for
Friday to meet his instruction that his body
should not stay too long in the mortuary.

The Chief of Staff to the governor, Mr Taiwo
Akerele will deputise for Ogie while other
members include the Secretary, Edo State
All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Osaro
Idah, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (rted), two
permanent secretaries, six persons from the
Ogbemudia family and a representative of
Delta State Government.

Vanguard gathered that Edo State
government has met with the deceased’s
family on the burial arrangement.

It will be recalled that Governor Obaseki
had advised the family of the deceased to
respect his wishes that he should be buried
without delay, urging the family to begin
preparations immediately.
Speaking, Governor Obaseki described Dr
Ogbemudia as a hero of Edo and Delta
states, saying:

“He was a father of modern
Edo. He represented everything we have
today.

The infrastructures we have today in
Edo and Delta are attributed to him.”

Ogbemudia was my leader in the military—
IBB

IBB in a statement personally signed by the
ex-president and made available to
journalists, by his spokesman, Prince
Kassim Afegbua, Babangida said: “The
sudden death of General Samuel Ogbemudia
struck me with helpless awe. I have not
finished swallowing the bitter pill of
General Adebayo Adeyinka’s passing on,

when I got the news of General
Ogbemudia’s exit. It truly hurts.

“Here was a leader whom I enjoyed very
cordial relationship with for over 50 years.

When I was 2nd Lieutenant, he was already
one of the senior officers we looked up to
in the sixties.”



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