COVID-19 HAS DEPLETED RANKS OF NIGERIA’S LEADERSHIP — OBASANJO

FORMER PRESIDENT, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO HAS LAMENTED THAT THE NATION’S RANKS OF DEDICATED AND RESOURCEFUL PATRIOTIC LEADERS HAVE BEEN DEPLETED BY THE DREADED COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

OBASANJO SAYS RESOURCEFUL PATRIOTS WHO SERVED THE NATION IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES INCLUDING, THE LATE REAR ADMIRAL NDUBUISI GODWIN KANU, RTD. HAD SUCCUMED TO DEATHS THROUGH COVID 19.

IN A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE TO WIFE OF THE LATE FORMER MILITARY ADMINISTRATOR OF IMO AND LAGOS STATES IN THE 70S,MRS. GLADYS NDUBUISI-KANU, OBASANJO EULOGIZED THE DECEASED, NOTING THAT HE WAS A DEDICATED OFFICER, A GENTLEMAN AND A REAL PATRIOT.

SIMILARLY, THE FORMER PRESIDENT, ALSO DESCRIBED LATE DR. BOLU AKIN-OLUGBADE, WHO EQUALLY REPORTED TO HAVE DIED OF COVID-19 COMPLICATIONS, AS A PASSIONATE NIGERIAN, WHO WAS ALWAYS IN DEFENCE OF HER UNITY AS HE WAS DEVOTED TO HIS ROOTS.

OBASANJO REMARKED THAT BOLU WOULD BE GREATLY MISSED BY HIS COMMUNITY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, STATE AND THE NATION IN GENERAL