True heroes never die: Ex Biafran leader ‘lives on’

 Everyday leads to another

Each one different from the other

Sometimes life don't seem fair

It's a game of do or dare

But true heroes never die

They just leave before good-bye

Hi Ho Silver away

We'll meet again someday

Legends live on and on

You were the unknown phenomenon

It's funny how time slipped by

Like the blink from a teary eye

I see you face in the full moon

Sometimes your voice fills the room

You are my true hero

Your light forever glows

http://www.usmemorialday.org/poetry/angelo.htm.

The entire nation is in sorrows over the death of the Leader of the defunct Biafran state colonel Chukwuemeka  Odemuegwu Ojukwu who passed on  to glory on the 26^th of November 2011. Born in Nnwi on November 4, 1933, he became the military governor of the then Easter Region in I966, at 33 years old.    

As the nation mourns the Statesman, Ojukwu, I know that not everyone will share in the sorrows of the death of this great hero of our time. We are not making moral judgment of his patriotism, but the world recalls his impart and heroism in Nigeria government. The Biafrian war is a history of much negativity at long run, but the intention of Ojukwu cannot be totally condemned.  The after effect of the war cannot be entirely judged negatively. Lessons must have be drawn from the heroic action of Ojukwu declaring the Biafrian war in 1967, that must have helped to make Nigeria of today. The contributions of Ojukwu to the making of Nigeria should not be summarized in the participation in the civil war.

Let us think of his courage to challenge injustice and the killing of some Nigerians in Kano that really motivated the civil war.

A man well acknowledged as a national Hero and a statesman. “ONLY a fortnight ago family members, political associates and well-wishers gathered in his Enugu residence to mark his 78th birthday.

They prayed, hoped and eagerly looked forward to their hero's return. But it was not to be. Early yesterday morning, former leader of the secessionist Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, finally lost the battle for life.

He died at the Lynden Hill Clinic. The cause of death has been identified as paralysis.” http://allafrica.com/stories/201111270014.html

Indeed, everyday leads to another. ‘Yesterday he was, but today, he is not, but he is still alive in the minds of many who really encountered him physically and historically. Life was not fair to him but all a struggle for the liberation his people. For this they unanimously crowned him with title ’Eze-Igbo gburugburu’ { the overall king of all Igbos). This makes him still alive and the generations to come will see his facw through the legend he has left behind.

It will be a great opportunity to Nigerian to emulate the heroic qualities of this warrior and learn from his human mistakes to move the country ahead. This will help to make his lights glow always.