Breaking! foreign affair minister is dead

 A one time foreign affairs minister, Chief
Ojo Maduekwe is dead 

The former Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) national secretary was born on May 6,
1945 in Abia state, Southeast Nigeria
 The Abia state born former Minister of
Affairs was appointed by the administration
of late President Umaru Yar’Adua on July 26,
2007 Chief Ojo Maduekwe Maduekwe was also











 appointed as Culture and
Tourism minister by President Olusegun
Obasanjo in 1999 as well as Minister of
Transport in 2001.

the former PDP national secretary got the nick
name ‘Ojo oni Keke’ for advocating the use of
bicycles during the PDP government. However,
critics said that the roads were unsafe for
cyclists.
According to SaharaReporters and Vanguard,
 There was a time Maduekwe himself was
pushed into a ditch by a bus while he was
cycling to work. He was national secretary of
the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), when
the party was ruling Nigeria.
 The secretary of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Maduekwe died
at his residence in Abuja on Wednesday, June
29 night shortly after returning from the US.
 Senator Walid Jibril, who is in Saudi Arabia for
the Lesser Hajj, said he was shocked when he
was told that Maduekwe passed on. Likewise, a
former publicity secretary of the PDP, Olisa
Metuh confirmed Maduekwe death.

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