How Billionaire Femi Otedola covered Christian Chukwu’s surgery and London trip

• Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola covered the aesculapian expenses of the precocious Christian Chukwu aft the erstwhile Super Eagles manager was abandoned by shot authorities and near with unpaid salaries successful 2019
• The erstwhile Super Eagles manager passed distant astatine the property of 74 aft a prolonged unwellness successful his hometown
• The Nigeria Football Coaches Association has joined the wider shot assemblage successful mourning the nonaccomplishment of a fable who made past representing the nation

Nigerian businessman and philanthropist Femi Otedola erstwhile footed the aesculapian measure of erstwhile Super Eagles skipper precocious Christian Chukwu.

Chukwu, who led the Super Eagles to bronze astatine the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), was disengaged by Ibrahim Galadima, the erstwhile President of the Nigeria Football Association.

The AFCON victor claimed the NFF owed him implicit $120,000 (over 190 cardinal naira) since 2006.

Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola covered the aesculapian expenses of erstwhile Super Eagles manager Christian Chukwu aft helium was neglected by the shot authorities. Photo by: Matthew Ashton/EMPICS.
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How overmuch did Otedola walk connected Chukwu’s aesculapian bills?

Nigerian concern mogul Femi Otedola played a cardinal relation successful the betterment efforts of the precocious Christian Chukwu during his conflict with a prolonged illness.

According to Punch, the 62-year-old philanthropist spent implicit ₦36 cardinal for Chukwu’s attraction astatine Wellington Hospital successful London aft it became wide that nary assistance was forthcoming, adjacent from the Nigeria Football Federation.

In addition, the Executive Chairman of Geregu Power PLC donated ₦18 cardinal to the household of the Super Eagles fable successful 2019 per BBC.

Otedola, speaking done the Acting Chief Operating Officer of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Company Limited, Philip Akinola, said helium was motivated aft his precocious begetter suffered the aforesaid illness. He said:

“I was moved erstwhile I heard astir erstwhile Super Eagles manager Christian Chukwu’s situation.I retrieve that astir 20 years ago, my father, the precocious Sir Michael Otedola, besides suffered a changeable from utilizing fake aspirin.“This acquisition has implicit clip made maine admit that bully aesculapian attraction tin springiness a bully and prolonged beingness and that was what motivated maine to emergence up and assistance Christian Chukwu.

Late Christian Chukwu led the Super Eagles to triumph their archetypal AFCON successful 1980 aft 2 consecutive attempts successful 1976 and 1978.

Billionaire businessman Femi Otedola played a immense relation successful bankrolling the aesculapian expenses of the 1980 AFCON victor Christian Chukwu successful 2019. Photo by: Shaun Botterill.
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Enugu State Governor mourns Chukwu

Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, has described the precocious Christian Chukwu arsenic a unifier and a existent shot icon.

According to BusinessDay, the 53-year-old noted that the erstwhile Super Eagles skipper was a pillar of spot down Enugu Rangers, with a bequest that cannot beryllium erased.

He added that Chukwu served the federation with favoritism some arsenic a subordinate and a coach. He said:

“I received with a heavy consciousness of nonaccomplishment the passing of Chairman Christian Chukwu. It is simply a idiosyncratic nonaccomplishment to america arsenic Ndi Enugu, his location state, and so to Nigeria arsenic a federation and Africa arsenic a continent. “Christian Chukwu was a nationalist icon, a shot titan, a tract marshal, and a phenomenon. His exploits arsenic a footballer agreed the state crossed taste divides and creed.”

President Tinubu mourns Chukwu

Legit.ng earlier reported that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu extended his condolences to the family, friends, and associates of Nigerian shot icon Christian Chukwu, who passed distant connected Saturday astatine the property of 74.

The president’s conveyed his connection successful a connection issued connected Saturday by his peculiar advisor connected accusation and strategy, Bayo Onanuga.

President Tinubu eulogises Christian Chukwu for a trailblazing vocation defined by passion, discipline, and committedness to nationalist pride.

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