APGA
presidential candidate John Gbor has condoled with the Governor of Sokoto state
and the family of former President Shehu Aliyu Shagari who passed on Friday,
December 28th, 2018 at the age of 93.
The
former President died in the National Hospital, Abuja after a brief illness as
a patriot who wouldn't want to be flown abroad for treatment.
Quoting
Mary Macbeth, Gbor said: "Everyone dies eventually, whether they have
power or not. That's why you need to think about what you'll accomplish while
you're alive".
Alhaji
Shagari was born on February 25th, 1925 in Shagari village. He held several
posts in Nigeria, prominent among them was when he was elected the President of
Nigeria on the platform of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) as the
first and only president in the Second Republic under the presidential system
of Government.
Unfortunately,
Shagari's government was overthrown by the military junta of Maj-Gen Muhammadu
Buhari on December 31st, 1983 on account of corruption.
Gen
Olusegun Obasanjo handed over power to Shagari following the controversial
elections conducted by FEDECO in 1979, leading to legal tussle staged by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, the presidential flagbearer of the Unity Party of Nigeria
(UPN).
Alhaji
Shagari also served several times in ministerial or cabinet post as a federal
minister and Federal commissioner from 1958---1975.
Buhari,
who organized a putsch, a latterday democrat, teargassed the democratically elected
Shagari government out of the corridor of power in 1983 and detained President
Shagari without trial for many months under the harrowing condition in which
Shagari nearly lost his eyes.
Gbor
notes that the patriotic zeal of Shagari in power would be missed for a season,
despite some flaws induced environmentally. His exit evokes public pains and a
loss to the nation still grappling with insecurity, poverty and gargantuan
abuse of power and human rights. May God grant Former President Shehu Shagari Aljana
fidau.
Signed:
Mike
Angel
Director
of Strategic Communication, Gen John Gbor and Jerry Chukwueke Presidential
Campaign Organisation APGA.
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