NIGERIA: Tinubu Visits Buhari Family In Kaduna, Attends Senator Yari’s Son’s Wedding

By Onoja Baba, Nigeria 

The Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday paid a condolence visit to the family of late President Muhammadu Buhari in Kaduna, assuring them that his administration will continue to uphold Buhari’s legacies of honesty, patriotism, and integrity.

The President was received at the family residence by Buhari’s widow, Aisha, his eldest son, Yusuf, and other relatives. Speaking during the visit, Tinubu said the family was not alone in their grief.

“We are just here to assure you that we share in your grief, we share in your pain. A loss in flesh is not a loss in the spirit, and the spirit that he left with us is a spirit of hard work, dedication, patriotism and honesty, and we are doing that,” Tinubu said.

In an emotional response, Mrs. Aisha Buhari thanked the President, the First Lady, and the Vice President’s wife for their support, describing the visit as a source of consolation. She urged Nigerians to emulate her late husband’s virtues of honesty, integrity, tolerance, accountability, and justice.

The President was accompanied by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, and the governors of Kwara, Yobe, Borno, and Sokoto states. Other members of the delegation included Finance Minister Wale Edun, Budget and Planning Minister Atiku Bagudu, Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle, and National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu.

Earlier in the day, President Tinubu attended the wedding of Nasirudeen Abdulaziz Yari, son of Senator Abdulaziz Yari, at Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna. Nasirudeen was married to Safiyya Shehu Idris, with Tinubu representing the Yari family during the marriage rites.

The President commended both families for upholding noble traditions and encouraged the couple to build their home on faith, love, and mutual respect.

The ceremony, attended by dignitaries, traditional rulers, politicians, and business leaders, featured prayers for the President and the nation by Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau and Chief Imam Dr. Muhammad Suleiman.