My darling Daddy, my super star,

I found this picture in my bedroom and thought to keep it till today for posting. Taken on your 25th wedding anniversary on October 12, 1988. Typical of your lifestyle - the usual breakfast set-up, mommy beside you and Uju smiling away in glee before leaving for school.
Now I see the similarity in posture between Uju and Chinemerem my last card. Interesting! 

Daddy you'd have been 81 today. I miss you.....big. Can't help but feel the vacuum of having not benefitted from discussions we would have had were you still with us. I'm in an interesting phase of life and I feel you would have been just the one person to talk to. I stay grateful to God for the privilege of having you as a father.

For your info, mom just got back into Lagos yesterday from London and she's fine. We doing ok to fit into your shoes to love and care for her just the way you did.

I remember you with love today and pray that you continue to rest in peace till we meet to part no more.
Happy birthday dad! Love you.        

We want to thank God for keeping us for more than 1 year after your passing on to glory. We also thank God for the grace and enablement given to us in getting your Biography completed within that time and launching it on the 19th of April 2014. We your family are committed to support the cause of alleviating the suffering of people battling with Parkinson's disease. We will soon launch a foundation in your honour so people will not have to suffer what you suffered with the help of God on our side.

Dad,
if you were still here with us by now I will be networking with my siblings on plans for you. Your birthday was always nice because most times it coincided with Father's day so that spared us the double expense of celebrating you for your birth and for being the father you were to us. You are not here now only memories and I remember when we were much younger that the committee of friends wives will cook for their husbands and gather at our house to celebrate you as well as Father's day. You were not perfect but I will like to have a father like you over and over again

In April 2010 as a way of showing appreciation for all the love and care shown by her father Chief M.N Akwiwu's first daughter Dr Ochiawunma Ibe invited her parents over to spend time in Namibia to see the land of the brave. While in Namibia Chief M.N.Akwiwu was hosted by the Nigerian Ambassador to Namibia His Excellency Ambassador Prince Christopher Ariyo