Professor Tamunoemi Sokari
David-West a consultant virologist of national and international standing and
lecturer at the University of Ibadan for decades, is dead.
He was aged 83.
News of his transition was
conveyed in a tribute by President Muhammadu Buhari.
David-West was Petroleum minister
when Buhari was a military head of state between 1984 and 1985, at a time oil
prices slumped to about $10 a barrel. David-West and his boss came up with a
policy of ‘counter-trade’, to sell Nigeria’s oil.
President Muhammadu Buhari
expressed deep sorrow at the death of his ally and friend, a man he usually
called “the indomitable Tam David-West.”
“He had an indomitable spirit,
stood resolutely by whatever he believed in, and was in a class of his own,”
said President Buhari of the academic, author of many books, and social critic.
He commiserated with the
David-West family, the people of Buguma, Kalabari Kingdom of Rivers State, the
academia, and all those who loved “the forthright Tam David-West.”
President Buhari prayed that God
will rest the soul of the committed nationalist, urging all those who believe
in the ideals he espoused to approximate same, for the betterment of Nigeria,
and humanity in general.
Before he became a Federal
minister in 1984, David-West served as Commissioner of Education in the old
Rivers State. He also served as Minister of Mines, Power and Steel under Gen.
Ibrahim Babangida regime.
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