The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, 2019 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said he is proud that his
party produced the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
He said this while paying tribute
to Yar’Adua, who died nine years ago.
The late former President had
died on May 5, 2010, after battling with an undisclosed illness.
In a statement he personally
signed and posted on his verified Facebook page, the former Vice President
described Yar’Adua as a peaceful and visionary leader, which Nigeria lost.
He recalled how the late
president initiated the Amnesty program for repentant militants in the Niger
Delta region.
The statement reads: “On May 5,
2010, Nigeria lost a man of peace and a leader with a vision in the person of
President Umaru Musa Yar’adua.
“The late President Yar’adua was
a man I was closely connected to. First, because his late brother, the great
Tafida of Katsina, Shehu Musa Yar’adua, was my political mentor who taught both
myself and Umaru, the ropes in politics.
“Obviously, with Umaru, the apple
did not fall far from the tree.
“And secondly, because we worked
very, very closely when he was the Executive Governor of Katsina state at the
time I was Vice President to our leader, President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“In this period where Nigeria is
facing almost unprecedented violence and insecurity, the world will remember
that it was President Yar’adua who bequeathed peace to the Niger Delta through
his futuristic and visionary amnesty and rehabilitation program that saw
militants turn their swords to ploughshares.
“That single action saw an
unprecedented improvement in the performance of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry
which led to record-breaking 5% GDP growth.
“Beyond that, Umaru Musa Yar’adua
was an advocate and proponent of the Rule of Law and the doctrine of Separation
of Powers. His was the only administration that did not suffer from
Executive-Legislative tensions in this Fourth Republic.
“I am proud of what he achieved
and the fact that such a decent leader was produced by my political family (the
Yar’adua political family) and my political party (the Peoples Democratic
Party).
“May the soul of President Umaru
Musa Yar’adua continue to rest in peace as we mark 9 years of his passing and
may Allah (SWT) grant him al-Jannah Firdaus.
“May God bless the family he left
behind. A grateful nation continues to enjoy from the labours of their beloved
son almost a decade after his passing.”
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