Bamanga Tukur: Shettima visits family, pays tribute to late elder statesman

Vice President Kashim Shettima has described the precocious erstwhile president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bamanga Tukur, arsenic a antheral who lived an exemplary life.

In Adamawa State connected Thursday to console the radical implicit the decease of the elder statesman, Shettima said the decease was a solemnisation of beingness due to the fact that the erstwhile politician of the defunct Gongola State was a colossus who died astatine a ripe aged property surrounded by loved ones.

Bamanga Tukur died past Saturday, September 12, successful Abuja and was buried the pursuing time successful Yola.

Addressing newsmen astatine Bamanga Tukur’s idiosyncratic residence successful Yola connected Thursday day aft gathering with the family, Shettima said Nigeria would miss the precocious elder statesman’s wealthiness of wisdom.

He said Bamanga Tukur, a erstwhile managing manager of the Nigerian Ports Authority, was besides a palmy concern person whose beingness was an inspiration to politicians and businessmen alike.

The Vice President, who said President Bola Tinubu had sent him to commiserate with the authorities and radical of Adamawa State, commended Governor Ahmadu Fintiri for lasting by Bamanga Tukur’s family.

Shettima besides vis...