Chief Mbazulike Amechi who died early hours of Tuesday 1 November at age 93 has been described as a true nationalist. Nigeria’s first Aviation Minister and a member of the first republic leaders, he was among the few Nigerians involved in the Zikist Movement and when the movement was proscribed, he became the Secretary General of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, NCNC Youth, a youth wing of NCNC.
During a visit of select Igbo elders leaders to President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2021 to discuss the possibility of a political solution to the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and insecurity in the southeast, late nationalist was quoted to have told the president:
“Mr. President, I want you to be remembered as a person who saw Nigeria burning, and you quenched the fire.”
Ikenna Emewu in a tribute published by Africa China Press Centre reflects on the insightful interview he had with late the elder statesman in 2019.
“ Ikenna, I am the only one left among all of us that fought colonial Britain.
We used to be three left – Maitama Sule who died in 2017, Shehu Shagari who died recently (December 2018) and myself. After Shagari, I am the only one left and Nigeria has not been going in the direction that makes me happy.
I always remember this country in pain because it has not turned out the way we expected while fighting and getting jailed.” Continue reading …https://africachinapresscentre.org/2022/11/01/the-boy-is-gone-my-last-interview-with-mbazulike-amaechi-1926-2022/
