The Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Right Honourable Somtochukwu Udeze says that the Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Reverend Valerian Okeke is truly one of the outstanding Prelates with full anointing of God.

Felicitating Archbishop Okeke on behalf of the State Legislature as he marks his seventy-first birthday, Right Honourable Udeze extolled him for his efforts towards the propagation of the gospel as well as the growth and expansion of churches under him.

The Speaker who described Archbishop Okeke as a renowned Theologian and Disciplinarian, recounted his glorious tenure as the Rector of the Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu where he made impressive marks in the lives of the then Seminarians who are now doing well as priests in their various stations of services.