Kindly Share This Story:By: Godknows Boladei Igali If not for man’s ineluctable duel with mortality, the Old GRA, Port-Harcourt residence of Opu Alabo (High Chief) Olu Benson Lulu-Brigg simply known as “OB” by peers or “Opuda” (patriarch) by family and younger associates would have been the epicenter of diverse religious, cultural, political, social and familial happenings, during this period. Born on May 22,1930 in the coastal commercial town of Abonnema in Kalabari Kingdom (Ijaw) in Rivers State, his life paths were varied, crisscrossing and globally outreaching, so the plans for his 90th posthumous birthday celebration on this day, were equally elaborate and beyond national boundaries. Expectedly so, as he was one of the main political titans of Nigeria’s Second Republic, a leading businessman from the time of the country’s Third Republic and an unmatched philanthropist since the present Fourth Republic. It was in 1864 that an English painter, Sir Edwin Landseer, (1802-1873) entitled one of his works “Man Proposes, God Disposes”. That cliché which is often used to describe hapless situations typified the earlier preparations for the celebrations of High Chief OB’s epical age of 90; a time to revel his Humanitarianism, Compassion and Philanthropy as well as his deep… Read full this story
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