Governor Hope Uzodimma has described the late former Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Ebere Udeagu, as a real statesman who served the people and the state faithfully.
Governor Uzodimma spoke yesterday while paying his last respect to the former Deputy Governor, alongside members of the Imo State expanded executive council, when Udeagu laid in state at the Sam Mbakwe Executive Council Chamber Government House Owerri.
At the end of the brief ceremony, the governor said he was personally present to receive his body, on behalf of the government and people of Imo State, “because Udeagu was a man who served Imo State diligently, with total commitment, and indeed a man of faith who resisted all temptations while he was in office.”
A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary and Media Adviser to the Governor, Oguwike Nwachuku quoted Uzodimma as saying, “The late Deputy Governor persevered, tolerated everything that was capable of provoking any human being on earth, yet had hope in God. He is a real statesman who committed to the interest of the State and the Country.”
Governor Uzodimma informed that when he assumed office in 2020, “Udeagu was one of the few Imo leaders who came and showed commitment, expressed interest on the need to develop Imo State and eschewed every ill-feeling that was not going to help Imo State.”
Governor Uzodimma assured that the government will work out how best to ‘’immortalise’’ the deceased as a way of acknowledging his role in the development of the State, adding that his lying in state at the Sam Mbakwe Executive Chamber shows that he served the State, hence he will continually be a stakeholder even while in death.