At exactly 4.06pm on Thursday, the remains of the late Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, were committed to mother earth at his country home in Fadan Kagomain Jema’a Local Government Area of the state.Click on read more below to
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Among those present to bid him farewell were President Goodluck Jonathan; Senate President David Mark; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur; Catholic Bishop of Sokoto , Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah, and Cardinal John Onaiyekan.
At Saint Paul Catholic Church where the burial mass was held, his chidren and hundreds of kinsmen and women wept uncontrollably.
Yakowa died in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa State last Saturday. Ex-National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi, and four others were also killed in the accident.
In their tributes at the service, Jonathan, Mark, Kukah and others praised the late governor’s commitment to national development, saying he died at an “appointed time”.
Jonathan, who described December 15, the day of the crash as a dark Saturday, regretted that the country had lost “a bridge builder”.
Source : Punch
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