Peter Obi, Labor Party Presidential candidate has mourned the passing of a former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Prof. Joe Irukwu.
Irukwu, who hailed from Amaokwe Item in Bende Local Government Area of Abia, reportedly died on the age of 89.
Obi prayed God to grant the deceased everlasting relaxation.
On his Twitter web page, the previous presidential candidate wrote,” Joe Ogbonna Irukwu, SAN, the primary Nigerian Professor of Insurance, and Former President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. Prof Irukwu was a profitable lawyer, a patriot, a terrific educationist, an creator and a famend insurance coverage govt.
“I benefitted from his smart counsel in my early days in enterprise and banking, for which I stay eternally grateful. He contributed immeasurably to the expansion of Nigeria’s economic system by his energetic roles within the insurance coverage sector of the nation. As a professor and educationist, he authored many books which have enormously added worth and data to the financial sphere of the nation.
“He was a detribalised Nigerian who was actively concerned in optimistic nationwide growth and might be enormously missed by the nation. Our ideas and prayers are together with his household, and I pray for God to console them, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide and the whole nation over his loss.“
