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| Late Shehu Musa Yar'Adua. |
The
Board of Trustees of the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation will host a Memorial
Programme in honour of late Shehu Yar’Adua to mark the 20th
anniversary of his death.
As
scheduled, the memorial programmed is for Friday, December 8, 2017 at 9:30am at
the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja. Prayers at the National Mosque will immediately
follow.
Former
president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR will serve as Chairman of the
Occasion. His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, President and Commander in Chief of
the Republic of Sierra Leone will deliver a Goodwill Message. Expected dignitaries
who will offer tributes to the late Tadifa include Major General Paul Tarfa (Rtd),
Mallam Adamu Ciroma, former Minister of Finance, Mr. Kola Abiola, son of late
M.K.O. Abiola and Barrister Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the
Federation.
The
20th anniversary is an opportunity to remember one of Nigeria’s foremost
contemporary leaders who died in Abakiliki Prison on December 8, 1997. Shehu
Yar’Adua not only fought during the civil war to unite the country but paid the
supreme price to ensure that democracy is enthroned in Nigeria.
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