According to a Tribune story, Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Senate, stated that the passing of Herbert Wigwe, his wife, and son is an unusual and extremely tragic circumstance during the funeral service for the CEO of Access Bank Holdings. According to him, his wife, the widow’s wife, should have been present because the widow wasn’t dead; if she hadn’t, the first son would have been. He added that Herbert Wigwe and his wife will live on in memory for a variety of reasons.
Godswill Akpabio said, “The death is very painful, and very painful indeed. But we are not going to cry in one day alone. We will cry for so many days. It’s not a normal occasion. Normally, the wife would have been around as the widow. If not the wife, the first son. This is a very abnormal occasion. We will continue to grieve after this. When you look at his university, you will cry; when you look at his personal house, an edifice, you will cry; when you pass through any of the Access Bank branches worldwide, you will cry.”
He continued, “When you come across children that he touched, those that he sent to school, and the lives that he touched, when they mention him, you will cry. When you even remember that his heir, Chizi, was already an iconic figure—a talented young man, highly educated, and prepared to take over from his father—and yet he’s no more, When you think of the fact that the wife would have been here to also mourn with us, but she joined him, then you will cry.”
