President Muhammadu Buhari has described the Emir of Keffi in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Muhammadu Chindo-Yamusa II, who died today in his palace in Keffi, as an apostle of war against Boko Haram insurgents.
The President, in a condolence message issued by his special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, recalled the late Emir’s appeal to Nigerians to support the Federal Government’s effort to counter insurgency and other social vices in the country.
He also acknowledged that latw Chindo-Yamusa, who until his death was Chancellor of Nasarawa State University, said that the late Emir was also an advocate of education as bedrock for development.
President Buhari said that late Chindo-Yamusa was a highly revered traditional ruler who will be greatly remembered as an advocate of peace and unity as a prerequisite for meaningful development in the country.
He said that the late Emir would be greatly missed and remembered as one who generously contributed to national development through his fatherly counsel and advice to those in authority.
President Buhari particularly recalls
The President prayed to Allah to grant Alhaji Yamusa eternal rest and to provide a successor who will do even more for the peace, development and prosperity of the people of Nasarawa State.
The Emir’s death was first announced today the Galadima of Keffi, Alhaji Abdul Usman, who is also the emir’s cousin.
He said that the late monarch took ill briefly and subsequently died in the palace.
The Galadina said:“his death is heartbreaking, painful but God gives life and takes it at will.
“The emir had contributed a lot to the development of not only Keffi, but to the development of Nasarawa State and the entire country while alive.”
According to Usman, the late emir was 70 years and was enthroned on May 11, 1978.
The Galadiman Keffi called on the people of the state to pray for the family of the late emir, even as he described his death as a huge loss to the Keffi Emirate Council and the state at large.
late Yamusa II left two wives and 27 children and many grand children. [myad]
