The remains of former President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has been buried at his home in Shagari in the local government by the same name.
\nA former Vice Chancellor of the Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Professor Shehu Galadanchi, led the prayers at his burial.
\nShagari, 93, passed on Friday in Abuja.
\nMeanwhile, Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki will on Monday lead a powerful delegation to Sokoto to condole with the Shagari\u2019s family, the government and people of Sokoto State, on the demise of \u00a0the first elected President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Usman Shagari, who died\u00a0on Friday, December 28, 2019.
\nIn a statement in Ilorin today (December 29, 2018), Saraki\u2019s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that Dr. Saraki saw the death of the nationalist and the last of the Nigerian titans who directed the affairs of the country in its teething days in the First and Second Republics as a national loss.
\n\u201cThe Senate President will be at the head of a delegation that will visit Sokoto not only to commiserate with the family of the late nationalist but with the people of Sokoto State and the entire country because late Alhaji Shagari represented so many good pages in the history book of our dear country.
\n\u201cAt the most critical times in the life of the nation, Alhaji Shagari was there as part of the group directing the affairs. He was part of the people who won independence from the colonialists, proved that Nigerians could direct the affairs of their country, saved Nigeria from disintegration when the unity of the country was threatened and was the pioneer elected President of Nigeria when the nation first experimented with the presidential system of government.
\n\u201cEven in his retirement from politics, he silently worked for the unity and progress of Nigeria. Alhaji Shagari was a genuine democrat. He had been a stabilizing factor in Nigeria. He deserves a special honour from all Nigerians. Both the Federal and Sokoto State Governments should name befitting monuments in his honour\u201d, Saraki stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The remains of former President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has been buried at his home in Shagari in the local government by the same name. A former Vice Chancellor of the Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Professor Shehu Galadanchi, led the prayers at his burial. Shagari, 93, passed on Friday in Abuja. Meanwhile, Senate President, Dr. Abubakar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}