The events celebrating the life and times of former President Muhammadu Buhari climaxed yesterday with a torrent of tributes during an extraordinary Expanded Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
The Legislature, led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio; the sub-nationals led by Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Chairman/Kwara State Governor AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq as well as the Judiciary were all eminently represented as encomiums rent the air.
The children of the late leader were all present at the solemn and somber ceremony of eulogies at the Executive Council Chamber of Aso Villa.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in an emotion-laden tone, described the departed leader as a patriot who led by example.
The President said Buhari was a leader of austere honour who remained “unmoved by the temptation of power, unseduced by applause, and unafraid of the loneliness that often visits those who do what is right, rather than what is popular.”
Before the event came to a close, the President announced the renaming of the University of Maiduguri after the late president.
