{"id":2573,"date":"2011-11-29T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/11\/%e2%80%98a-reformist-is-gone%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T23:01:00","slug":"a-reformist-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/29\/a-reformist-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A reformist is gone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><span>Former Special Assistant to the late Chief M.K.O Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Lisa Olu Akerele, has said the country has lost a reformist with the death of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a statement in Abuja, Akerele said Ojukwu was destined for the progress of Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Akerele, however, observed that if leaders like Ojukwu had risen beyond their ethnic cleavages and viewed the June 12 annulment with a national perspective, the country would have been a better entity today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He urged Ojukwu\u2019s contemporaries still alive and the younger generation to strive beyond their ethnic enclave, and view Nigeria from a nationalistic perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenationonlineng.net\/2011\/index.php\/news\/28064-%E2%80%98a-reformist-is-gone%E2%80%99.html\" title=\"\u2018A reformist is gone\u2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018A reformist is gone\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Former Special Assistant to the late Chief M.K.O Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Lisa Olu Akerele, has said the country has lost a reformist with the death of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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