Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Monday, paid a courtesy go to to former Head of State, Normal Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd.), in London, as a part of efforts by the Presidency to increase solidarity and goodwill to the elder statesman, who convalescing in the UK.
The go to, carried out on behalf of President Bola Tinubu, was described as a present of respect for one in every of Nigeria’s most revered leaders, significantly amid studies of the previous chief’s fragile well being in current months.
The go to got here simply hours after the vice chairman visited the household of the late former president Muhammadu Buhari, who handed away in London on Sunday.
LEADERSHIP studies that Normal Abdulsalami, 81, is broadly celebrated for midwifing Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999, following the sudden loss of life of army ruler Normal Sani Abacha in 1998. Abdulsalami led the nation for 11 months and handed over energy to a civilian administration, headed by President Olusegun Obasanjo, marking the start of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.
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