The Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who died in a London hospital late last year, will be buried on March 1, 2012. His burial was earlier scheduled for February 3.
The burial committee set up by Ohanaeze and other interest groups and headed by Professor A.B.C Nwosu announced this change in date yesterday.
While expressing regret over the change in date, the committee said that it was as a result of the protest and strike by organised labour and civil society groups over the withdrawal of subsidy on fuel which it said impacted negatively on earlier arrangement.
It said, however, that the change in date would not affect the elaborate arrangement put in place to give the Eze Igbo Gburugburu a befitting burial.