By Adadareporters
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has said it received the death of the group managing director and CEO of Access Bank Plc, Mr Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe, with distress.
Wigwe died with his family members in a helicopter crash on Friday, February 9, 2024 on his way to Las Vegas, USA.
Dr Alex Ogbonnia, the national publicity secretary of Ohanaeze, in a release, said, “The enviable life trajectory of the late Wigwe underscores the widely acknowledged Igbo ingenuity, hard work, integrity, prudence and the capacity to turn adversity into a pool of opportunities. Herbert proved to the entire world that the audacity of intellectual prowess, social skill, humility and honesty is far more impactful than the audacity of aristocracy.”
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, in the release, described the death of the deceased “as one death too many”.
According to him, “He was exemplary in diverse ways, a motivator, a beacon of hope and a change agent with a robust vision. Nigeria has lost a rare gem with an incredible zest for excellence, infectious enthusiasm, irresistible warmth, character comeliness, benevolent spirit and public wizardry.”
The statement further stayed that, “Wigwe is one man who has changed the obscure narrative of Isiokpo with a network of asphalt roads, pipe-borne water, solar lights and above all a university. His compassionate dispositions found expressions in the HOW Foundation, a non-profit organization which takes care of the widows, the vulnerable and scholarship schemes to indigent university students both in his Isiokpo community and beyond.”
Chief Iwuanyanwu called on the governor of Rivers State, Mr Siminalayi Fubara, to immortalize the late Herbert Wigwe ‘to serve as a source of inspiration to the present day youths’.
The deceased was born in Ibadan on August 15, 1966. He attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he passed out in 1987 with a second-class upper degree in accounting.
