Kalu Condoles Na'Abba, Asika Families
From Emeka Osondu in Umuahia
Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has described the late Sole Administrator of the defunct East central State, Chief Ukpabi Asika, as a leader whose giant image loomed large among his contemporaries.
In his letter of condolence to the Asika family at Onitsha, Anambra State, Kalu said the news of Asika death came to him as a surprise and shock.
He said the deceased administrator was an apostle of reconcillation who handled the delicate tasks of rehabilitating the terribly battered defunct State of Biafra after the Nigerian Civil war.
According to Kalu, "though his assignment was not a easy one, he (Asika) exhibited a high sense of altruism and empathy. Even unto death his name will remain evergreen in the minds of every Igbo-man and woman His memory will lignite.
"When we consider his monumental achievements, we have every reason to thank God for his life of service to humanity. For this reason, we should not mourn too much, for God who brought him into this world has taken him back into angelic glory," Kalu stressed.
He, therefore, on behalf of his family, government and people of Abia State urged the Asika family to bear the loss with courage and expressed the hope that the deceased would rest with Christ on the day of Resurrection.
Similarly, Kalu has commiserated with former speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na'Abba over the death of his father, Alhaji Umar Na,Abba.
In his condolence letter to the former speaker in Kano, Kalu said he received the news of late Na'Abba with shock and regretted that the vacuum created by the loss could not be easily filled.
He described late Umar-Na'Abba as an accomplished politician who lived a fulfilled life, adding that his roles in the defunct Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) can not be easily forgotten.
Kalu nonetheless urged the bereaved family to take consolation in God as their deceased father had led an exemplary life laced with philanthropic spirit, which had placed him higher and above his contemporaries in the political firmament of Northern Nigeria.
His words: "I lack appropriate words to console you on this grievous loss, but I must not fail to urge you to see your father's death as an inevitable end to a life of great toil. Life, though a mystery beyond human comprehension, is indeed transient.a
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