By Chinonso Alozie
Owerri—The Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha yesterday said the demise of former President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari at the age of 93 was historic.
Okorocha stated this in Owerri through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo.
Onwuemeodo said: “Governor of Imo State and chairman, Progressive Governors’ Forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has said that the election of Alhaji Shehu Shagari in 1979 as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria after decades of military rule re-awakened the democratic consciousness of Nigerians.
“The governor therefore described Alhaji Shagari’s death at the age of 93 as historic and thought-provoking.”
Oshiomhole was in Imo to insult me —Okorocha
In a related development, the immediate past governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim said Shagari lived a disciplined lifestyle and did not allow himself like other politicians into unrestrained acquisition of wealth.
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