Glowing Tribute.....CHIEF DANIEL OSIKHEME ORBIH: EXIT OF A POLITICAL ICON
" Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. But when a man dies at the time his wisdom is most needed, the loss is irreparable." By Prof. Mike Ozekhome, CON There are men whose passing does not merely end a life, but it interrupts a conversation that has been running for decades. On Monday, 31st August 2026, that conversation stopped. Chief Daniel Osikheme Orbih, famously called Kuluku I, died at the age of sixty-four. For a man who had spent nearly three decades embedded in the machinery of Nigerian party politics, the news travelled with a peculiar speed and weight. To speak of Dan Orbih only in the vocabulary of politics would be to tell half the story, and perhaps the smaller half. He was, before he was a politician, a son of Etsako soil, a student of business, and a man who built enterprises with his own hands long before he learned to build political structures. The Ogbona boy was born on 27th October 1961 in Ogbona,...