Sometimes you find people that are created so great, and you marvel. The way they start is shocking, but humility is the company of a great man or a woman. Humility matters so much. When you have a very good relationship with humility, it helps you to attain your destined height of greatness.

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Just before he left us to meet his ancestors at the age of 91, the first governor-general and president of Nigeria, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was interviewed in the year 1995 by Professor Funso Oluyitan of International Insight, a weekly program for news and information about people and events in countries outside the United States of America.

Oluyitan interviewed Azikiwe at the Lincoln University where he graduated in 1930. And Oluyitan was then the director of public affairs at the prestigiously famous university.

In this very interesting interview, you will first cherish Oluyitan for this historically informative piece that shows why it is integral to keep records (for when you have records, your mind is being refreshed) and then see that a good mind is very good to have given that it is what fueled Azikiwe’s being a true nationalist.

You will find that when you read or hear about people’s history, they so inspire you to want to become exactly what you want to become and also want to serve mankind. In it you will know why Azikiwe said that we should accept the Northerners given that we are still the same human beings, and he did that in good faith for Nigeria to be one. But look at after his death now, see what is happening. Look at what they have turned the country to be. It is very sad. He exercised unconditional love which is the attitude of a true nationalist. The attitude of a nationalist is to establish unconditional love among all.

He wanted Nigeria to be free but not with a revolution let alone a bloodshed.

Still in this interview that is the most vital and inspiring political interview Nigeria would ever have love to come across now so that they can know and hear the mind of one of their forefathers who was indeed a leader, Azikiwe did not mention whether he was from the West or the East, he totally ruled that one out. Not that he cannot mention it but he sees himself as a true nationalist. A Nigerian. Isn’t that how it should be? Not our leaders of today who say I am from Ijebu, I am from Kakuri, no! There was absolutely no iota of division in his perspective or sentiments of ethnicity or tribe, no! That is why some Nigerians are so pained by what is happening today. Because if you want to lead the people, you must forget about all those sentiments. Be it political, tribal, ethnic, regional, and religious sentiments. They should be totally put aside. You overlook them. Because if you take them into consideration, you will be stepping on the lives of so many. It is a pity.

Also, if you want to know what made Azikiwe to go to Lincoln as a student those days, what the college life, the fraternity, sorority and sport activities at Lincoln University was like during his time? Or how Lincoln prepared him for the kind of service life that he lived? The factors that brought him and Kwame Nkrumah together?

Patiently watch the interview below and know about his from grass to grace adventure where he worked as a dishwasher, a janitor and other jobs of labor to tend to his school needs.