Former Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed his regrets at the death of former Minister of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, in an Indian hospital weekend.
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He described her death as a “passage of one of the jewels” of his administration.
Chief Obasanjo noted that Akunyili’s death “is a great loss to Nigeria”, which needs men and women of high integrity, industry, patriotism and honesty to make it great again.
The ex-president also noted that such virtues enabled the late Akunyili to make a difference in the nation’s Health sector.
According to him, the former minister’s death from cancer in India is “traumatic and a transfiguration of once active and vibrant personality”.
Obasanjo recalled that Akunyili’s courageous and successful crusade against fake drugs saved Nigerians from sundry dangers associated with adulterated drugs and foods.
The former President, who paid tribute to the late amazon in a telephone interview with reporters, added that as Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mrs. Akunyili took the fight against fake drugs round every corner of the globe, preventing the circulation of unwholesome substances that could have proved fatal to unsuspecting Nigerians.
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