{"id":56587,"date":"2022-03-16T17:59:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=56587"},"modified":"2022-03-16T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:59:30","slug":"adieu-the-prince-of-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=56587","title":{"rendered":"Adieu, the Prince of Nigeria\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Louis Odion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is very hard to accept the fact of Prince Emeka Obasi\u2019s passing. Like a warrior, he fought hard till his last breath against a medical condition that sapped him of everything: from vigour to finance, everything.<\/p>\n<p>But there was something that infirmity couldn\u2019t take away \u2014 the warmth of his spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Like a true warrior, Prince pushed back for more than eight years, against this strange affliction, this invincible foe.<br \/>\nWhenever I could, I would stop by at his Ikeja GRA, Lagos home, full of laughter and deep Christian faith.<br \/>\nWe would gist and joke on every thing \u2026 politics and personal issues \u2026 till nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>Always around was his soulmate and sweetheart, Dr. (Mrs.) Betty Obasi, a tower of strength to hubby through the dark tunnel of adversity.<\/p>\n<p>He fondly called me \u201cMy in-law\u201d (wife Betty hails from Edo State like me).<\/p>\n<p>We spoke as recently as few weeks ago. As frail as his voice sounded, he continued to echo courage in the throes of unspeakable misery.<\/p>\n<p>Adieu my friend and brother, the true Prince of Nigeria, the one whose eyes were truly blind to ethnicity and religion, whose mind was completely free. Adieu, Prince.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e <strong>Odion, FNGE, is Senior Technical Assistant on Media to the President (OVP)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Pix: (R) Prince Obasi, wife Betty and Louis Odion during our last meeting.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Louis Odion It is very hard to accept the fact of Prince Emeka Obasi\u2019s passing. Like a warrior, he fought hard till his last breath against a medical condition that sapped him of everything: from vigour to finance, everything. But there was something that infirmity couldn\u2019t take away \u2014 the warmth of his spirit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}