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Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by OEPHIUS(m): 6:37pm On Nov 20, 2019
Two Years Anniversary: Enugu govt immortalizes late Ekwueme

…Renames street after former VP

The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, yesterday, immortalized the late former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, by renaming the popular Ezikwo Street in Independence Layout, Enugu, to “Dr. Alex Ekwueme Street”.

In a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, the decision was in commemoration of the second anniversary of the death of Dr. Ekwueme - the Ide of Oko Kingdom in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State - who passed on November 19, 2017.

The statement described late former Vice President as a “passionate patriot, foremost statesman, committed nationalist, uncommon leader, distinguished scholar, political bridge-builder, outstanding manager of men and materials and a quintessential gentleman”.

It added that the Enugu State Government will continue to celebrate the life and times of the icon of peace and national unity “who bestrode our political, intellectual and social spaces like a colossus in many ways”.

The statement by the SSG disclosed that the state government has directed the Chairman of Enugu North Local Government Area to “immediately rename Ezikwo Street, Independence Layout, Enugu, to Dr. Alex Ekwueme Street, Independence Layout, Enugu” and ensure the implementation.

Enugu State is in the hands of God! # #

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-east/364309-enugu-govt-immortalizes-late-ekwueme.html

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by gloriaunobi(f): 7:11pm On Nov 20, 2019
How does that put food on my tell?

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Sport89: 5:24am On Nov 21, 2019
Enugu State has done well

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by PussyShaver: 5:25am On Nov 21, 2019
Nice

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by NiggaArea: 5:26am On Nov 21, 2019
Sport89:
Enugu State has done well
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Jestin: 5:26am On Nov 21, 2019
I am of the opinion that adequate respect should be accorded to our heroes past but the new generation leaders can never be heroes

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Yohh: 5:27am On Nov 21, 2019
Do Nigerian politicians ever reason that they will die someday?
Their desperations baffles me..
Even if they don't believe in God or judgement day, death is inevitable.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by MrHighSea: 5:29am On Nov 21, 2019
Gburugburu comot some of ur ugly posters mek peson see road.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Yohh: 5:30am On Nov 21, 2019
Do Nigerian politicians ever reason that they will die someday?
Their desperations baffles me..
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by RealityShot: 5:30am On Nov 21, 2019
Mtcheww

instead of building a new commercial or residential building or estate
or a hospital and naming it

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Biingoo: 5:33am On Nov 21, 2019
Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme. One of the outstanding leader from Igbo land. Rest on legend

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by cenaman(m): 5:41am On Nov 21, 2019
What does he achieved in his life time apart from been a former vice president? IPOB abeg na question i ask.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by majamajic(m): 5:46am On Nov 21, 2019
cenaman:
What does he achieved in his life time apart from been a former vice president? IPOB abeg na question i ask.


do u know the National Theatre igumu Lagos

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by johnmartus(m): 5:53am On Nov 21, 2019
He lived an exemplary life .
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by cenaman(m): 5:59am On Nov 21, 2019
majamajic:



do u know the National Theatre igumu Lagos

Yes i do, you can view it clearly from costain.
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Angeldada55(m): 6:02am On Nov 21, 2019
Na wetin this one dey use money do be dat ?

I hear o...

Iffa talk now, pesin go say e no concern me.
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by efighter: 6:06am On Nov 21, 2019
After Buhari built a gigantic mausoleum for him? You people have no shame. A Fulani herdsman called Buhari had to teach you how to honour your elders, something your son Goatluck Jonathan could not do.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by majamajic(m): 6:08am On Nov 21, 2019
cenaman:
Yes i do, you can view it clearly from costain.

do u know the master planner ?


do u know who brought oko federal polytechnic to Oko people and Anambra ?

meanwhile agustus ahkiomo and oladipo Diya did nothing for their people to remember them


ekwueme is a hero in my local government , he made us proud

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by cenaman(m): 6:18am On Nov 21, 2019
majamajic:


do u know the master planner ?


do u know who brought oko federal polytechnic to Oko people and Anambra ?

meanwhile agustus ahkiomo and oladipo Diya did nothing for their people to remember them


ekwueme is a hero in my local government , he made us proud
Did u know EZE-EGO of oko? the owner of eze-ego lodge.
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Nobody: 6:24am On Nov 21, 2019
gloriaunobi:
How does that put food on my tell?

Enugu people don't care weda u have eaten or not

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Nyamiri: 6:24am On Nov 21, 2019
Hypocrites.

When Ekwueme was sick, what did Ugwuanyi do to help him? Nothing.

An Igbo man can't give you 10 Naira to treat yourself when sick, but can spend 10 Million Naira on your burial.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Nyamiri: 6:27am On Nov 21, 2019
efighter:
After Buhari built a gigantic mausoleum for him? You people have no shame. A Fulani herdsman called Buhari had to teach you how to honour your elders, something your son Goatluck Jonathan could not do.

Honour who?
When this same Ekwueme was sick, what did Enugu state in particular and Igbos in general do to help him? Nothing.

It was Osinbajo that arranged foreign medical treatment for him only for him to die before he left.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by homeplans: 6:51am On Nov 21, 2019
The deeds that men do,lives after them,it pays to leave a legacy.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by sweetonugbu: 6:55am On Nov 21, 2019
Renaming a street is not the only way to immortalize him
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by hisgrace090: 7:22am On Nov 21, 2019
A very cheap honour.
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by weownlagos: 7:38am On Nov 21, 2019
OEPHIUS:
Two Years Anniversary: Enugu govt immortalizes late Ekwueme

…Renames street after former VP

The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, yesterday, immortalized the late former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, by renaming the popular Ezikwo Street in Independence Layout, Enugu, to “Dr. Alex Ekwueme Street”.

In a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, the decision was in commemoration of the second anniversary of the death of Dr. Ekwueme - the Ide of Oko Kingdom in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State - who passed on November 19, 2017.

The statement described late former Vice President as a “passionate patriot, foremost statesman, committed nationalist, uncommon leader, distinguished scholar, political bridge-builder, outstanding manager of men and materials and a quintessential gentleman”.

It added that the Enugu State Government will continue to celebrate the life and times of the icon of peace and national unity “who bestrode our political, intellectual and social spaces like a colossus in many ways”.

The statement by the SSG disclosed that the state government has directed the Chairman of Enugu North Local Government Area to “immediately rename Ezikwo Street, Independence Layout, Enugu, to Dr. Alex Ekwueme Street, Independence Layout, Enugu” and ensure the implementation.

Enugu State is in the hands of God! # #

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-east/364309-enugu-govt-immortalizes-late-ekwueme.html
Good. Ekwueme lived in Ezikwo street when he was alive. The renaming of the street is in order.

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Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by AmazingELixir: 8:01am On Nov 21, 2019
grin grin grin

Something must give in for balance to be maintained.....Ezikwo demortalized for Ekwueme to be immortalized.
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by IrijiEkweremadu(m): 8:02am On Nov 21, 2019
slowpoke he died during buhari regime!
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Samfloxin(m): 9:06am On Nov 21, 2019
Immortalizing someone you don't even know where his soul is... nonsense
Re: Alex Ekwueme: Enugu Govt Immortalizes Late Fomer Vice President by Rumxy(m): 10:26am On Nov 21, 2019
Nyamiri:


Honour who?
When this same Ekwueme was sick, what did Enugu state in particular and Igbos in general do to help him? Nothing.

It was Osinbajo that arranged foreign medical treatment for him only for him to die before he left.

He died during Buhari's regime and not Jonathan.

You must also be daft to believe that Alex Ekwueme was a poor man that he would need the government to pay his hospital bills. If you don't know, Ekwueme was a world-class architect and owned the first architectural private firm in Nigeria and Modotel Hotels(located in every major city in the SE and Abuja) plus a massive real estate business. He also became a lawyer.
Even without all these achievements, how do you even think that someone that reached the level of VP in Nigeria cannot be able to pay for his hospital bills? The government intervening is a gesture accorded to him as a former elder statesman(as its done for other statesmen) not because he couldn't afford it. He died a fulfilled and accomplished man at the ripe old age of 85 not because of poor medical treatment.

Federal University, Ebonyi state is also named after him.

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