Obasanjo condoles with Tanzania President over husband’s death

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has condoled with the President of Tanzania, Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, implicit the passing of her husband, Hafidh Ameir Hassan.

Hassan died portion receiving attraction astatine a infirmary successful Zanzibar and was buried astatine his family’s residence successful Kizimkazi, a colony connected the country’s semi-autonomous land of Zanzibar, on Monday evening.

Obasanjo, successful a connection made disposable to newsmen by his Special Assistant connected Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Tuesday, described precocious Hassan arsenic the archetypal ‘First Gentleman’ that carved a unsocial way successful the country’s history.

Obasanjo said, “Rather than seeking the noisy glare of the governmental spotlight, precocious First Gentleman remained a humble and dedicated cultivation academic, choosing to anchor’s woman household with quiescent grace.

“He stood by your broadside done the decades, agelong earlier you took up the monumental task of starring your large country, providing the warmth of location and a dependable anchor.

“His passing is not lone a profound idiosyncratic nonaccomplishment for you and your children, but it is besides a nonaccomplishment for the wider East African assemblage that respects your enactment and service.”

Obasanjo stated that the quality of the passing was received with a heavy consciousness of daze and profound sorrow.

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