Legends they say, are not born every day neither do they die as they live forever, encircling our times and space with their memories and chivalry by which we remember them. Same goes for Dr Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo, a legend in all modes by which legends are identified and cast. Okadigbo, towers above a number of statesmen, dead or alive who traversed the earth. Stamping his imprint upon our weathers, he did not do this with machetes, guns or magic, though he was magical and dazzled many with it; it was not the magic of the dark arts, no! Okadigbo was simply brilliant!
But brilliance wasn’t his only value; permit me to add intelligent and unsatisfied, allow me to say he was the most colourful politician in Nigeria after Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. He was our mixture of Steve Thaddeus, Ted Roosevelt and John Dewey.
What shall I, as a young man, not say of Chuba? I was not yet born when he had started waltzing through the Nigerian political trail as a man determined to etch his name in…
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