WHEN the second republic Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme took ill and was admitted in a private hospital in Enugu, one person who felt so bad about the development, especially when it was reported that the 85 year-old lawyer and architect was in coma, was Chief Ben Ezeibe. Ezeibe is from the same Orumba North local government area of Anambra State as the former Vice President. Though much younger, he had remained a loyalist of Dr. Ekwueme for nearly 60 years.