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Burial committee of Nnamdi Azikiwe

The Abacha junta inaugurated a national burial committee to oversee the state burial of Dr. Azikiwe. A serving Minister of Special Duties, Dr. Lazarus Unogu, was the chairperson. To fulfil the "state burial" objectives, the body was flown to 4 locations in Nigeria, namely: Abuja, Lagos (former Nigeria's capital), Enugu (where he was the former Premier)[1], and Zungeru (his place of birth in Northern Nigeria), and was interred in his village, Ogbeagbu, Onitsha, on Saturday, November 16, 1996.[2]

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A set of politicians from Azikiwe's NCNC and Awolowo's AG political parties assembled under a body called the True Progressive Party Grand Alliance to form a burial committee as well. The committee was known as the National Committee for Zik’s Funeral Celebrations was led by one-time Nigeria's Minister of Information, T.O.S. Benson, with one-time High Commissioner to the UK, Chief Mathew Mbu, heading a fifty-man sub-committee.[4]

At an earlier news break of Dr. Azikiwe's demise, which was a hoax,[5] Chief R.B.K. Okafor and Chief Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe, former political colleagues of Azikiwe, announced a 122-man Committee on the Transition of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.[6]

References

  1. ^ admin (2016-10-22). "The Great Zik Was Here… Welcome to the Revamped Premier's Lodge". THISDAYLIVE. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  2. ^ ADEBANWI, WALE (2021). "Burying "Zik of Africa": The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 63(1). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History: 51. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 40 (help)
  3. ^ ADEBANWI, WALE (14 January 2021). "Burying "Zik of Africa": The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 63 (1): 51. doi:10.1017/S0010417520000377. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. ^ ADEBANWI, WALE (2021). "Burying "Zik of Africa": The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 63(1). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History: 63–64. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 40 (help)
  5. ^ "The day Zik didn't die". The Nation Newspaper. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  6. ^ ADEBANWI, WALE (2021). "Burying "Zik of Africa": The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 63(1). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History: 61. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 40 (help)


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