November 01, (THEWILL) – Nigeria’s first Aviation Minister and prominent member of the Zikist Movement, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, is dead.
Family sources hinted that the elder statesman died on Tuesday morning, in his home town of Ukpor, in Anambra State, at the age of 93.
The nonagenarian was born on 16th June,1929.
Also known as “The Boy Is Good”, he served as the first Minister of Aviation during the First Republic in Nigeria.
He was also among the few Nigerians involved in the Zikist Movement.
After the ban of the movement, he became the Secretary General of The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) Youth, a youth wing of NCNC.
Recently, the late Mbazulike led a delegation of prominent Igbo leaders to Aso Rock, where he made a case for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Anthony Awunor, is a business correspondent who holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics (UNILAG). He is also an alumnus of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria Kaduna State. He lives in Lagos.
