Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Saturday paid his last respect to the late Senator Francis Arthur Nzeribe who he described as a great man who will be missed by all.
Uzodimma spoke at the funeral service for the late Senator Nzeribe at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Oguta.
Addressing the congregation at the end of the requiem Mass, the governor, accompanied by his wife, Chioma, said everyone is in agreement that Sen Nzeribe was a great man and that his death is touchy.
He said: “He came a great man, lived a great man and is going a great man. Events surrounding the late Sen. Arthur Nzeribe show that he was a great man both in life and in death.”
Uzodimma described late Nzeribe as one of Igbo’s and Nigeria’s best and brightest and further affirmed that the late Senator was a “common denominator in the political lexicon of Nigeria.
He assured those who came to Imo State for Sen. Nzeribe’s burial both from within and outside the state, that their security was guaranteed.
Later at the palatial home of the deceased, Governor Uzodimma and his wife signed the condolence register after which they witnessed Sen. Nzeribe’s internment.
In the condolence register, Governor Uzodimma wrote: “There’s no other way of defining a great man outside what you represented here on earth before your passage. May the good Lord grant you eternal mercy and a place in heaven.”