Senator ben obi biography of abraham

In , distinguished Senator Dr. Ben Ndi Obi CON, FNIPR conceived the idea to institute an endowment in perpetuity to immortalize the good works of Nigeria&#;s foremost nationalist, statesman and pan Africanist, the inimitable, Rt Hon, His Excellency, Dr.

Nnamdi Azikiwe, First President, and first Indigenous Governor-General of Nigeria. As a young person, Senator Ben Ndi Obi had followed the political trajectory of Zik, as Dr. Azikiwe was fondly called, with tremendous admiration and respect.

Zik was a trailblazer, who together with other contemporaries in Africa like Herbert Macauly, Kwame Nkrumah, Leopold Senghor, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, led the struggle for the complete decolonization of Africa.

It was on Zik&#;s young shoulders that the struggle for the emancipation of Africa rested. He was a rallying point, who provided the intellectual impetus for an African renaissance.

Zik was not only a political colossus, but a political philosopher of g