Obiano Declares Zik’s Birthday Work-free Day, Asks FG to Make It National Holiday

By C. Don Adinuba

Anambra State will soon start to observe November 16 of every year a work-free day in the state to commemorate the birthday of Nigeria’s first president, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, who led the country to independence on October 1, 1960.

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State who revealed the plan will go to the state House of Assembly with an appropriate bill any time from now for the legislature to pass into law.

Chief Obiano made these facts known in his response to the completion of the Zik Mausoleum in Onitsha, Anambra State, which was opened by President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday.

The governor has also asked the federal government to declare the birthday a national holiday as the “United States has done to its heroes like Martin Luther King, who successfully led the movement for the full restoration of human dignity to African Americans and other minorities in America by fighting racism in all its ramifications in the 1960s”.


Describing Azikiwe as the “greatest Nigerian who has lived in the last few centuries, a Nigerian who inspired the likes of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah whom he supported to go the United States to study in order to have a better understanding of the black and African condition”, Gov Obiano recalled that African nations like Ghana and Tanzania have honoured their pan Africanist leaders like Nkruma and Julius Nyerere.

Ghanaians celebrate the Founder’s Day on September 14 in honour of Nkrumah’s birthday while Tanzanians mark the Nyerere Day on October 4 in commemoration of his death.

“It is odd for Nigeria to continue to fail to honour Dr Azikiwe on an appropriate scale, and this failure will continue to prick our individual and collective consciences until the right thing is done”, Obiano declared.

The governor said that Zik also inspired such Nigerian nationalists as Chief Obafemi Awolowo with his intelligence, eloquence and public oratorical skills as well as stupendous literary gift.

“Chief Awolowo felt so challenged that he had to go to England to study law even as a married man.

“In appreciation of Zik’s profound influence on him, Awo, also known as the sage among his admirers, established his Tribune newspapers on Zik’s birthday, as Awo himself revealed in a 1980 letter”.

Obiano called Azikiwe the most detrabilised Nigerian politician who spoke all three main Nigerian languages, gave his children names of other ethnic groups and named key institutions for leaders of different ethnic groups, including his opponents.

According to the governor, when he established the University of Nigeria at Nsukka in 1960, Zik named its halls and residences “after Sir Ahmadu Bello who was then the Premier of the Northern Nigerian Region, Chief Samuel Akintola who was the Western Premier and Chief Awolowo who was Leader of the Opposition in Parliament”.

Obiano recalled how “Zik’s bold and imaginative development strides resulted in the country’s rapid development.

“The establishment of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, caused the Western Region to establish the University of Ife and the Northern Region to set up Ahmadu University at Zaria.

“Zik’s establishment of the African Continental Bank, Nigeria’s first indigenous bank, led to the Western government’s building of the National Bank and the Northern Region’s building of the Bank of the North”.

Commenting on Zik’s strides in journalism, literature, sports, entrepreneurship and national integration, Chief Obiano observed that the National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) founded by Azikiwe and Herbert Macaulay was the country’s first mass movement.

“Zik was truly phenomenal”, the Anambra governor concluded.

okay we're still atikulated

Good.
Obiano leads, Anambra follows.

Obiano is building a lasting legacy in Anambra.

He's smart to have involved President Buhari in his quest.

Smart Obiano. The President got you covered.


Anambra for APC!

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hmmm....This their collabo shaaah
I'm beginning to think Obiano is a mole installed by the APC just like Ali modu sheriff!!

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*Dear President Buhari, welcome to Anambra - your state of campaign rallies*

Your Excellency, before you came back to become an elected president of the Federal Republic, there were dozens of events that offered you compelling reasons to pay visit to the Light of the Nation, but you found excuses to stay away.

Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu died and was buried. Leaders from all over the world poured in to Nnewi, Anambra State, to pay their last respect. You were nowhere to be found.

We lost our very own erudite Prof. Chinua Achebe, you couldn't care less, Your Excellency.

We made excuses for you Sir. We told ourselves that because of your role as an opposition candidate that you structured your movements in order not to clash or interfere with that of the then governing PDP.

It wouldn't be long before providence "changed" you from being an opposition candidate to being the Commander-in-Chief.

Mr. President, during your very first year in office, Anambra witnessed a very tragic fuel tanker explosion in Onitsha that claimed a lot of lives. You cocooned yourself in Aso Rock.

As president, you never bothered with a state visit or found any excuse whatsoever to come, but when it came to Anambra 2017 governorship election, you suddenly found time to come market your broom in Anambra, although you later swapped that broom with a fowl.

After the Anambra elections, Your Excellency, an elder statesman, Pa Alex Ekwueme died and was buried in Oko, Anambra State. You couldn't bring yourself to pay your respect, not even during the service of songs in Abuja. Even if you've not put the events of 1983 behind, we reckon that Gen. Yakubu Gowon attended Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu's funeral.

Away from that, Your Excellency. Anambra and other states were ravaged by flood. Again, you cocooned yourself in Aso Rock.

Mr. President, make whatever you can of this information: All your visits to Anambra State in the last twenty years (a pitiful number of them anyway), save for one, are only for campaign rallies.

We have been told that besides the planned campaign rally, you are coming to “commission” a repainted grave Sir. No thanks to your 97:5 policy, there are no visible projects initiated or completed by your administration in Anambra after four years!

Even if we accept repainting of grave to be a federal project Sir, it is very ironical that you, dear President Buhari, the very exact opposite of the man the great Zik of Africa - a firm believer in one Nigeria - was, is coming to his resting place today probably with the intent to score cheap political points.

Even when we lost great Zik of Africa in 1994, you couldn't bring yourself to pay your respect. Just a few weeks to election, you suddenly found out what great a man Zik was. Today, you are now dancing around his grave. Your Excellency, this is the worst display of political expedience in recent history.

Your associates may not not tell you this, Your Excellency. Our people are very circumspect. Even if you reverse your previous decision and make Zik's birthday Nigeria's new democracy day, no political gain will accrue to you on great Zik's account. Except if you suddenly take your self to the "next level" and subscribe to the ethos and principles the great Zik of Africa lived and died for.

Mr. President, just in case you are already at the crowded campaign ground when this message gets to you, please be informed that you are just a stone throw away from DIG Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah's father's house. You will remember her Sir. As has been your character, you skipped her just a few weeks ago to appoint someone from the part of Nigeria “you trust” as Nigeria's IGP.

It's a pity that you couldn't trust her with a sensitive appointment but you are now close to her father's house asking her siblings to trust you with their votes.

Before you entered the campaign arena Sir, your convoy drove past the very place where many tragically lost their lives during that dance you sanctioned. Today you are asking their widows and the families they left behind to vote for you even while that provocative dance is still ongoing.

Several hundreds of youths laid off from factories that either shut down or scaled down operations due to your poorly articulated forex and economic policies are part of the “mammoth crowd” waiting to receive the two thousand Naira your mobilizers promised to share and entertain themselves with the superstar singer they also promised to bring.

Don't be deceived dear President Buhari, the five percenters have decided to take your 5% and give it to the people who already have 97%.

As you hurry to get back to your comfort zone before the sun sets on you in the land of the rising sun, we regret that we will never get to see you in Anambra again till the next campaign rally, if God permits. Fare thee well President Muhammadu Buhari.

Warm regards,
*Chima Christian

Okay

No be small tin o...
So wetin dat one go do for the state people?!

why not rather do something physical and meaningful.
well na dem sabi

Obiano is an Idiot, if u know, you know.

So... what should the workers be doing? Why not pay a percentage of the money generated that day to Institutions named after him.

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Obiano is building a lasting legacy in Anambra.

He's smart to have involved President Buhari in his quest.

Smart Obiano. The President got you covered.


Anambra for APC!

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I don't know the technology used in declaring this holiday

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... Zik inspired Awo ,. OK no problem

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Which of the ANAMBRA??

All na game
Play to profit

SEONaijaExpert:
Obiano is building a lasting legacy in Anambra.

He's smart to have involved President Buhari in his quest.

Smart Obiano. The President got you covered.


Anambra for APC!

hope you're referring to another Anambra in zamfara

The reality is that work free day in Anambra may not be observed, it can be observed in Zamfara or Katsina state where civil servants hardly go to work except close to month end when salary is expected.
The only work free birthday that will be respected in Anambra is Ojukwu birthday.
The people don't have emotional attachment to Zik, they respect Late musicians Osadebey or Oliver Dear Coque more than Zik unfortunately

Obiano the double face man

When the country was regional, every part of the country competed favorably amongst eachother, now the country is rudderless