Atiku Mourns Shehu Yar’Adua 26 Years After His Death

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has remembered the late politician, Shehu Yar’Adua, twenty-six years after his death.

In a post via his official X handle on Saturday night, the former vice president said the Nigerian political landscape lost a leader and colossus on December 8, 1997.

Atiku said he remembered Yar’Adua for his heroic role in dismantling the walls of sectional politics in Nigeria, which led him and his other followers to believe in the ideals of democracy and transparency in leadership.

The former vice president prayed for the soul of the departed to continue to rest in peace.

He wrote: “The Nigerian political landscape lost a colossus on December 8, 1997. Twenty-six years later, we remember the Tafida, Shehu Yar’Adua, for his heroic role in dismantling the walls of sectional politics in Nigeria.

“You led us to believe in the ideals of democracy and transparency in leadership. It is to these ideals and for allowing me to cut my teeth in politics that I, especially, will continue to have fond memories of you. May your soul continue to rest in peace, Tafida. Amin.”