Former Foreign Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe is
dead.
was appointed Foreign Minister of Nigeria on July
26, 2007 by President Umaru Yar'Adua
Maduekwe was also appointed Culture and Tourism
minister by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999,
Minister of Transport in 2001.
As Minister of Transport he got the nick name 'Ojo
oni Keke' for advocating for the use of bicycles,
although critics said that the roads were unsafe for
cyclists and Maduekwe himself was pushed into a
ditch by a bus while he was cycling to work.
He was National Secretary of the ruling political
party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe,
is dead.
He was 71.
