Tinubu, Obasanjo condole Namibia over death of President Geingob

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has extended condolences to the government and people of Namibia over the passing of President Hage Geingob.

The president, in a statement on Sunday by his spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, mourned the painful loss of the late president he described as a “Veteran in the struggle for democracy, proponent of good governance, and advocate of economic, social, and political solidarity among African peoples.”

President Tinubu said this tragedy came at a time when Africa needed more visionary leaders who believed in the common destiny of the continent, and who could strengthen bonds across borders and spread the tendrils of cooperation across all fields of human endeavour.

The president assured that his thoughts and prayers, and indeed those of Nigerians, were with them as Namibians mourned the late president.

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Similarly, former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday condoled with the new President of Namibia, Nangolo Mbumba and people of the country, following the death of immediate past President Hage Geingob.

Geingob, 82, died early on Sunday while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in the capital, Windhoek.

Obasanjo, in a condolence letter to the new President of Namibia on Sunday evening, said the death of the former president was received with shock and sorrow.

He noted that as a statesman, profound thinker, tactician, and patriot, the late President Geingob devoted his time to the service of Namibia in particular and our continent in general.