• As MASSOB leader urges FG to declare Nov 4 public holiday
From CHIDI NNADI, Enugu
In commemoration of the day Ojukwu died, all Igbo organisations including the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) will on November 26 hold a memorial ceremony for the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.
The leader of MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, who disclosed this to Saturday Sun on the telephone also, called on the Federal Government to declare every November 4 when Ojukwu was born a public holiday as a mark of honour for the departed Biafran leader.
Ojukwu, who was born on November 4, 1933, died on November 26, 2011. Uwazuruike told Saturday Sun that his group was making the demand based on what Ojukwu stood for and the sacrifices he made for the Igbo nation, saying a public holiday in his honour would be a veritable way of immortalising his name.
He said that his members have held a posthumous birthday celebration for the dead Igbo leader on November 4, at the Ojukwu Memorial Library in New Owerri, Imo State, saying that though Ojukwu was dead, he still lives in the mind of every Igbo man.
The MASSOB leader disclosed that his group and the entire Igbo nation would on November 26 converge on Ehime Mbano LGA in honour of their fallen hero.
He said that Ojukwu, who he said, was the spiritual leader of the Igbo, would be remembered now and forever.
He, therefore, urged Ndigbo to continue to remember their hero, saying that the light he lit would not be extinguished until the Igbo race gets what was due to them in the country or their quest to realize a sovereign state of Biafra is actualized.
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