Aisha, daughter of Abba Kyari,
late chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, says her father never drove
a car till he passed away.
In a touching tribute published
on ThisDay, titled ‘My daddy, my best friend’, Aisha described her late father
as an outstanding personality whose wealth of experience cuts across various
spheres of life.
She said it was however, amusing
that despite his exposure, he could not drive a car until his demise.
“This may sound odd but my
beloved daddy couldn’t drive a car! He never learnt how to drive for a day in
his entire life,” she wrote.
She also went on to explain how
her late father was largely “misunderstood” and “mischievously misrepresented”
by some Nigerians, despite his contributions to humanity and nation-building.
“My dad was terribly
misunderstood and arguably mischievously misrepresented. Even his age was never
gotten right from the day he became Chief of staff till the day he died. My dad
died at the age of 67. He was often mistaken for the late Brigadier Abba Kyari
who was indeed in his 80’s,” she added.
According her, the decision of
the late chief of staff not to defend himself against critics was to enable him
concentrate on his major assignment of serving his principal and the country.
“For clarity, my dad was more
than capable of defending himself. The reason he didn’t is that it would have
distracted him from his primary assignment of serving his principal and by
extension, his country,” Aisha wrote.
Kyari
died from COVID-19 complications on April 17, a few weeks after he had tested
positive for the novel disease, following an official trip to Germany and the
UK.
Aisha, Kyari’s eldest daughter,
had made headlines for calling out her
later father’s critics.
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