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For the first time, the people of Abua/Odual ethnic nationality in Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State have marked the passage of their political hero, late Chief (Barr) Akeodi Sunday Oyaghiri, fourteen years after with a plea to the political leaders in the area to emulate his fine virtues.
In an exclusive chat with our correspondent over the weekend in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, organizer of the memorial event, Engr. Itoemugh Oghu, described the demise of the late political icon in 2006 as sad and a dangerous wound that has refused to heal.
Engr Oghu said the event, which was organised on Monday January 6, 2020 at late Oyaghiri’s hometown of Omokwa in Abua Central, attracted the political creme-de-la-creme within and outside the LGA and that many politicians from across the political divides who attended the memorial event recounted the memories and legacies of the late political icon, known during his lifetime as the ‘Political Igwe of Rivers State’.
“Late Chief Barr Akeodi Sunday Oyaghiri, who died in 2006, touched lives in so many ways; the late hero due to his pragmatic nature was very influential in Rivers politics and was one of the major contributors to the creation of Abua/Odual Local Government Area.
“Akeodi Sunday Oyaghiri was a selfless leader who decentralized powers to various clans in Abua/Odual and Rivers State at large. The political hero also fought for the increase of Abolga allocation as one of the oil producing local government areas in Nigeria,” he said.
Engr Oghu, who said he organized the ‘Akeodi Oyaghiri Memorial Day’ as a believer of the Oyaghiri school of thought, also pointed out that his political students and those nurtured by the political hero had continued to dominate the political firmament of the LGA, and sought for their support to make the event an annual one in memory of the late political tactician whose legacies were printed all over the LGA.
He also thanked former Governor Rotimi Ameachi for naming the Abua/Odual council secretariat after Late Chief Barrister Akeodi Sunday Oyaghiri, as well as including his name in the Abua/Odual Identification Letter, and also Hon. Udi Odum, the former council chairman for immortalizing the late icon.
Before his death 14 years ago on January 6, 2006, late Oyaghiri was a two-time finance commissioner and commissioner for Power under former Governor Peter Odili.
