President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerian politicians to consider themselves servants and not Lords or Masters to Nigerians.
He also urged them to exhibit simplicity and leadership of service delivery above personal interests.
Buhari, represented by Bawa Bwari, gave the advice during the final interment of the former governor of Niger State, Abdulkadir Kure, at the deceased’s GRA residence in Minna, Niger State.
The president described the late Kure as an example of what leadership should be – humility in service and touching the lives of his people.
“The death of Engineer Kure will be felt by many who knew him for his kindness, simplicity, very accommodating, a compatriot and a leader who has served the people and for this history will continue to remember him for what he lived and died for,” Buhari stated.
The president said that the loss of Kure would not be felt by only Niger State indigenes, but Nigerians.
He prayed Allah to grant aljannah Firdausi to the departed former governor, stressing that, “Death is an inevitable end to all mortals but those you touched their lives while alive will bear testimonies to whatever legacies left by all who knew you on the day of final journey to eternity while those left behind will bear witnesses to the good or bad works we did when we die”.
Kure died in a German hospital on Sunday after brief illness.
