How Ojukwu died in London
Twenty-two days after his seventy-eight birth-day, former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu succumbed to the cold hands of death. The family said in a state-ment that their patriarch died of stroke in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, United Kingdom, in the early hours of yesterday. The National Chair-man of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), the platform on which Ojukwu sought to become president in 2003 and 2007, and which Board of Trustees (BoT) he headed, Chief Victor Umeh, said the former warlord, passed on at about 2.30 a.m. yesterday. Ojukwu had been flown to the London hospital almost one year ago, precisely December 23, 2010, after he suffered what doctors called “massive stroke” and went unconscious. He was initially treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, before the trip abroad in an air ambulance Tributes poured in, in torrents, yesterday, as the death of the man who led the Igbo on