Walter Carrington mourns Chief Anthony Enahoro

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Former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, yesterday in US said the late Chief Anthony Enahoro lived a life of dedicated struggle.

Carrington said: "While still in his thirties, he moved the motion for self-government in the Federal House of Representatives, thus setting in motion a chain of events which were to lead, three years later, to the independence whose jubilee we have just celebrated. In his seventies, instead of resting upon his well earned laurels for a life of activism on behalf of democracy, he once more entered the arena to do battle against the worst of Nigeria 's military despots.

"Chief Anthony Enahoro's life dramatically illustrates a major cause of the failure of Nigeria to fulfill the dreams so many had when he pioneered a parliamentary path to its independence. For half a century men of vision like him have been marginalised and their wisdom ignored while lesser men looted the state and imprisoned or killed so many men and women of principle and superior ability who had the courage to oppose them."

Enahoro's second son, Eugene, yesterday called on the Federal Government not to immortalise his late father by naming physical structures after him but to focus on bringing into reality the ideals the late sage stood and fought for.

He spoke while receiving Prof Pat Utomi, National Chairman of National Conscience Party, Mr. Femi Falana and Mr. Kenneth Imansuagbon, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Edo State.

Carrington mourns Enahoro