According to the Sunday Vanguard,it was gathered that President Goodluck Jonathan directed officials of the Nigerian embassy in Washington to ensure that the former number two citizen, who, along with former military head of state, General Abdusalami Abubakar, midwived the current democratic dispensation, was accorded the honour of a nationalist.
The body of Akhigbe, who was also a former Chief of the Naval Staff and a former military governor of Lagos and Ondo states, and who hailed from Fugar in Etsako Central local government area of Edo State, on arrival in Lagos, is expected to be flown to Edo State where he will lie in state before a ceremonial national burial.
It was gathered that Lagos and Ondo states would honour the former CGS.
Meanwhile, South-south leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has described Akhigbe as a great democrat.
In a condolence message, yesterday, the elder statesman, who noted that the South-south and Nigeria had lost a great leader with the passage of Akhigbe, said, “The sad news of the death of a gallant Soldier, Admiral Mike Okhai-Akhigbe came to us as a rude shock and most devastating.
“Though we were not unaware of the state of his ill- health which kept him away from Nigeria for a long time and intact, I visited him in company of Alabo Graham Douglas and my wife at his residence in London. We were happy that he was recovering and intact he came down to the gate to receive us and also saw us down when we were leaving”.CLICK here to read more.
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