Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has urged political office holders to emulate the lifestyle of the late icon of Estate Management, Sir Fortune Ebie, by serving with integrity.
The governor made the call yesterday, while speaking at a funeral service for Ebie at the Cathedral Church of St. John (Anglican Communion), Agbor. The governor was accompanied to the event by his deputy, Kingsley Otuaro, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Kingsley Esiso and other top officials of government.
Governor Okowa said: “Sir Ebie served and led with an unassailable integrity, he set a standard of moral rectitude in the slippery world of business and service; he was among exemplary courage and selflessness in service, and we should take the battle from where he stopped. It is the best tribute we can give to him. I know we are mourning, but, we have every reason to celebrate his life for what he did for Nigeria as a nation. He was a leadership icon; passion, integrity and service.”
The Bishop of Ika Diocese of the Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. Peter Onekpe, urged political office holders to be inspired by the lifestyle of the deceased. “We need a crop of leaders who will not collect money and dump in their houses, that is corruption; let us shun materialism, materialism is what has spoilt Nigeria,” the Bishop said.