APEX igbo Socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has extended their congratulations to the renowned Igbo professor, Prof. Ben Nwabueze amid his 90th birthday celebrations.

The group through a press statement signed by their spokesman, Chief Alex Chiedozie Ogbonnia, wished the legendary intellectual, blissful aging in great health and vitality.

The statement thus reads:

OHANAEZE NDIGBO SALUTES NWABUEZE@90

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide felicitates with Professor Ben Nwabueze at 90.

Professor Nwabueze is a quintessential Igbo; rich in intellect, courage, ingenuity, tenacity, hard work and patriotism.

Among the Igbo, Professor  Nwabueze has written his name in gold as the founding secretary-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. He is endowed with a magnetic mien, upright transparent disposition, disarming scholarship and an amazing public relation; the sterling qualities that helped to galvanized eminent Igbos to lend their supports in nurturing  Ohanaeze Ndigbo to attain an enviable global status.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo is very proud of this rare gem, Professor Ben Nwabueze, for his various accomplishments; an erudite scholar with over thirty books to his credit, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, former minister of education, a prodigy in constitutional law-whose works have added profound values in constitutional development of several African countries.

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worlwide led by Ambassador Professor George  Obiozor will continue to celebrate Nwabueze as a formidable moral edifice and a veritable source of inspiration to the younger generation . He is a man who speaks truth to power with lucid erudition and inspiring conviction.

In congratulating Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, we pray to God for more years in good health.