Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says Abba
Kyari, the late chief of staff to the president, paid the supreme price in his
service to Nigeria.
In his tribute to Kyari on Sunday, Fashola said the good way
Nigerians can honour Kyari’s service and memory is “to continue where he
stopped”.
The late chief of staff to the president died on Friday
after battling COVID-19.
He contracted the disease on his trip to Germany where he
led a government delegation on power late March.
Fashola said Kyari was “much misunderstood” and “often
maligned”.
“Wherever you stood then and stand now, let us not forget
that Abba was a patriot,” he said.
“He executed President Buhari’s vision with his own single
mindedness. One of his favourite quotes was credited to Jeff Immelt to the
effect that “The job looks easy when you are not the one doing it.” He seemed
to take a lot of comfort from these words…
“Like all of us, Abba was flawed but he was not conceited.
He was driven by conviction and never shied from an intellectual argument
because his intellect was vast.
“Now that he has paid the supreme price in the service of
the fatherland one good way we can honour Abba’s service and memory is to
continue where he stopped.
“Our most compelling assignment is to make the defeat of
Covid-19 an urgent National Assignment to be completed in shortest possible
time. I think Abba would love that very much.”
The minister added that ending the outbreak would require
“all of us, high and low , to observe existing guidelines”.
“We must now undertake this assignment with a single
mindedness similar to Abba’s execution of his own assignment,” he said.
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