My Last Encounter With Okwadike – Eze Okey-Dede

I became close to Okwadike, His Exeellency Dr Chukwuemeka Ezife moment I started attending Eminent Elders Consultative Forum meeting which he Okwadike was the chairman.

Gradually we became friends with numerous visits to his home and in one of my visit to his house on October 2023 to inform him about my upcoming Offala  Festival which was supposed to hold on the last Saturday of November but latter rescheduled to Saturday 2nd December 2023, that day he asked that I should come upstairs and we sat at the balcony.

Before then, our meetings used to be at the sitting room downstairs and always very brief but on this day he told me a lot of stories and ended saying that he acknowledged that he has made some mistakes and that we should forgive him and that I should work hard to bring peace among the Igbo in Abuja.

I didn’t fathom any meaning to what he was saying because I knew that he was the chairman of Eminent Elders Forum and the only one highly qualified for such position of making  peace for Igbo people in Abuja.

Even beyond so I did not think much of what he said about me bringing peace to Igbo people in Abuja.

That day I just informed him about the upcoming event and I promised to bring the invitation card later not knowing that that would be the last time I will be seeing him.

Two weeks to the event date I went to his house to deliver the invitation card only for his PA to insist that I should give him the invitation card and the accompanying drink with the promise to deliver same to Okwadike.

Even when I enquired of his whereabouts the PA agreed that he was indoor.

We just left as we had many invitation cards to distribute. On the day of the offala I was expecting to see him but did not think much about it until when Igbo 1 of Abuja, HRM Eze Dr Ibe Nwosu arrived without Okwadike .

I guessed that he might not be at my Ofalla for one urgent assignment or the other.

It was two weeks after my Ofalla, that I heard that the great one with the big good heart Okwadike, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife had gone to meet our lord God.

Okwadike you had a good heart and many good thoughts for Igbo people in Abuja and Nigeria among which was for peace and unity for our people here in FCT.

Okwadike  you were a big brother and a very good friend to me and be rest assured that the assignment you gave me at the eve of your departure to bring peace within our people shall be accomplished by the grace of God and to the glory of God and for the benefit of Igbo people in Abuja and the nineteen Nothern states.

I’m promising you that your wish for Igbo people to live in peace and harmony here in Abuja is a mission that must be accomplished. Rest in Peace Okwadike Ndigbo.

Igwe Obata Obie, HRH Eze Amb. David Kingston Okey-Dede, Eze Igbo I of Maitama Abuja FCT

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