A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Don Etiebet, CON, has mourned a former Minister and ex-national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Audu Ogbeh, who died on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
Etiebet, in a statement sent to the THE CONCLAVE, described Ogbeh as a great friend of his.
The statement is reproduced here under in extenso:
“I was very sad yesterday [August 9, 2025] when I read your above story on the passing of Chief Audu Ogbeh to eternal glory so suddenly. I wasn’t composed enough to send my condolences yesterday. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
“I knew Chief Audu Ogbeh as a young minister of Communications in 1982. He had been a great friend since then as we admired each other’s technological abilities as young men in government and in the private sector in the eighties.
“He was very brilliant, very principled and very result-oriented and committed in all his services to the nation, including being minister of Agriculture and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ).
“He was so passionate of Nigeria’s wellbeing and development, and about what he would like Nigeria to be as a developed nation with indigenous expertise, which he thought we were able to, given the level of our knowledge and human capital, natural resources and population, that he was always talking about.
“He would look frustrated when he saw the waste and maladministration that prevailed in the country.
“He was writing his autobiography till he died as he would tell me whenever I visited him at his Asokoro residence, that he was putting his thoughts on Nigeria down before he died for the benefit of the future generation.
“Unfortunately, he didn’t finish to launch it.
“Chief Audu Ogbeh was one very passionate great Nigerian I had ever met, always deep in thought about the status of Nigeria in the comity of Nations.
“He lived for equity and justice and was disappointed in the way things were still going on in the country at his age.
“He loved Nigeria but was ashamed of her status, given the resources that were accruing to her.
“He was very patriotic and went into farming to, as he once told me, ” to help my people in the little way I can, Don.”
“May his great soul rest in peace. May the Almighty God grant the family and the country the grace and fortitude to bear this very great loss to them. We shall all miss him.”
●》Mourned by his friend, Chief Don Etiebet, CON.
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