A legal practitioner and member of the Committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reforms in the ongoing National Conference, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on Monday in Abuja paid glowing tributes to a fellow delegate and former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili.
He said the late Akunyili won for herself over 400 laurels in the course of serving humanity both in Nigeria and in the internationally community.
Ozekhome, in his tribute to the former Director-General of National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control at the plenary, also stated that Akunyili could cry easily over any form of injustice or oppression of a lesser person.
According to him, as Director-General of NAFDAC, she gave fake and adulterated drug peddlers a bloody nose, adding that even as Minister of Information, she rebranded Nigeria.
He said, “Inspite of her illness, pains, agony, pangs and near blood, she literally defied nature and looked death in the face. She possessed passion and patriotism, she wore the face of the Nigerian of African women better remembered for her famous words that a cabal was holding Yar’Adua to ransom, refusing to let us know the true state of his health.
“Even when the Conference Chairman told her she could sit to contribute to discuss the President’s inaugural speech at plenary, she opted to stand, using her last breadth, her last strength, her last soul, to fight for Nigeria.”
Meanwhile, it was a mournful mood on Monday at the plenary of the confab as delegates paid tributes to both Akunyili and the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero.
Bayero, who lived between 1930 and 2014, died on Friday, while Akunyili, a delegate to the ongoing National Conference died at age of 59 on Saturday.
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