Shehu Sani Joins Nigerians in Mourning Chief Audu Ogbeh

Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has joined several Nigerians in mourning the passing of Chief Audu Ogbeh, who died today at the age of 78.

In a tribute shared on his X handle, Sani described Ogbeh as a rare figure who straddled two distant generations of Nigerian politics — serving as a minister in the Second Republic, and later as both party chairman and minister in the Fourth Republic.

“He once admitted that he was more of an idealist. He was the man who hosted President Olusegun Obasanjo for breakfast in his house and by lunchtime was relieved of his position,” Sani recalled. “The British export cornflakes to us; he tried to export yam to them.”

Sani praised Ogbeh’s intellectual depth, noting that he “spoke more like an academic than a politician” and lauded him as “a thinker, a philosopher, and a lonely visionary in a strange clime.”

“May his soul rest in peace,” Sani concluded.

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