Showing posts with label Former Goveror Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Former Goveror Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Pini Jason – A Date Still Fresh

By Kanayo Esinulo
It happened in the morning of May 4, 2013. Pini Jason was already beginning to recover from surgery which his doctor considered necessary and urgent. He had no choice but to submit himself in obedience. But days before he left Abuja for Lagos, we kept talking not just about the impending medical tour to Lagos, we also discussed the rampage of Boko Haram in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, a city he said he visited a number of times and developed so much love “for its streets lined with trees and flowers, but which these rascals are now destroying.” He told me how beautiful and peaceful Maiduguri was each time he visited the city either on official duty or on holiday. 
*Pini Jason 
We talked of other things like Jonathan’s response to the terror group, and then we would return to his health. “I am not feeling too well,” he said repeatedly, but kept assuring me that his doctor was certain that the surgery would come off pretty well.