President Buhari mocks Zik’s son in death as FG, Onitsha Indigenes Shun Burial –Obiano demands for completion of Mausoleum

www.odogwublog.com reports that exclusively that Federal Government and indigenes of Onitsha, Anambra state yesterday shunned the burial ceremony of late Chief Chukwuma Bamidele Azikiwe, the first son of the first president of Nigeria, late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onitsha.                                                                                                                                      
The Obi of Onisha, Igwe Alfred Achebe and his cabinet chiefs including Federal Government representatives were conspicuously absent at the burial which did not go down well with the mourners and sympathizers during the burial despite the fact that the late Chukwuma was a High chief in Onitsha and also in good book of the
Federal Government.     
 The two children of late Chukwuma, Ikechukwu and Chinwe  were in painful mood throughout the burial ceremony.                                                                                      
 In his sermon, the Emeritus Anglican Archbishop of on the Niger, Most Rev Maxwell Anikwenwa regretted that people politicized the death of Chukwuma which may have been attributed to the shunning of his burial by those who were supposed to be there.                                                                                                                  
  He described Chukwuma as a selfless and generous person that was not interested in acquiring earthly wealth but service to God and    man.                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                           

Speaking, the former national chairman of All Progressive Grand Aliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, said, "the most important thing is for one to achieve heaven"
adding that it is not the number of mourners that matter but the heart with which the people receive the demise of the person in question.                                                                                                                                                         
 He urged the brother of late Chukwuma, Ambassador Emeka A. Azikiwe and the entire family to take heart adding that God in His infinite mercy will grant them the heart with which to bear the loss.                                                                                                                  
  In his tribute, the Igbo spiritual Leader and Ogirisi Igbo, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, urged the family to take heart and revealed that late Chukwuma was fighting for Igbo course.                                                                                          "He was not interested in acquiring wealth even if he had the opportunity as the son of the first president of this great country" Ezeonwuka stated.                                                                                                                              
Also speaking, Gov Willie Obiano who was represented by the Commissioner for Special Duties, Hon Uzoamaka Onuegbu, said that the state government has become an integral part of Zik's family.  
                                                              
  "You can see how we kept the compound tidy for the burial and we hope the Federal government will complete its work on the library project that is currently going on here" she said.                                                                                                                                   
 In his contribution, the Ambassador described his late brother as selfless and generous person that was not interested in acquisition of wealth.