Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has cancelled a three-day schedule for working visits to some local government areas of the state and called on internally displaced people he was to visit to pray in honour of Abba Kyari who died on Friday.
Kyari was chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari and from Borno state.
Zulum was to spend three days in Ngala local government area for both food distribution and foundation laying of some projects due to humanitarian needs of internally displaced people.
On Saturday, he suspended all his schedules and mobilized internally displaces people on camps in Ngala local government to offer prayers to God for the repose of Late Kyari who hailed from Bama LGA in Borno state.
Governor Zulum shortly after receiving the news of Kyari’s demise at Gamboru, a border town in Ngala LGA, where he passed the night, requested Chief Imam of the town, Goni-Awari Goni-Kadiri to lead a gathering of other imams and displaced persons to offer prayers of forgiveness and eternal peace in favour of the deceased.
“We have lost one of our own, Alhaji Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the President. It is a big loss to us because Borno has just lost a rock. I was really shocked by news of his demise. I last spoke with him exactly weeks ago and he was in good spirit,” he said in a statement.
“Alhaji Abba Kyari was a good man that was misunderstood by many people and whatever it is, his appointed time has come and every human will one day die, no matter how long we live and for this divine reason, good people or those with wisdom, do not celebrate the death of anyone.
“I urge all of us here to pray for one of our own. Someone who was sincerely passionate about the fight against boko haram towards peace-building and restoration in Borno state, the northeast and Nigeria.
“I will like this gathering of Imams to lead prayers for the late chief of staff to have eternal peace. May Allah forgive his shortcomings, admit him into aljanna and give his family, other loved ones and the people of Borno state the fortitude to bear his demise,” Zulum told the group of imams.
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