The exit of Ralph Obioha

Former founding member of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), elder statesman, businessman and entrepreneur, Chief Ralph Obioha, died on October 3 at the age of 80. The Okpuruisizuruoha II of Arondizuogu was a great Nigerian patriot and political leader. His life traversed business, public affairs and politics. Chief Obioha was a 2nd Republic federal legislator, party founder, and one of the prominent figures of the pro-democracy activism in the 1990s.
He was born in Arondizuogu, Imo State, to the family of Chief Louis Nwakire Obioha, an industrialist, who established NIPROC, a palm kernel extraction company. The entrepreneurial spirit later influenced his business and politics...