Former Military ruler, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, has mourned the death of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari.

Shagari, the First Executive President of Nigeria, died on Friday, December 28 at the National Hospital in Abuja, after a brief illness.

IBB, in a statement, said Nigeria and Africa as a whole have lost a great leader.

His full statement below:

With deep heart and sympathies I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to the Family of the first civilian Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Turakin Sokoto, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, GCFR who passed on today, Friday, 28 December 2018 at the National Hospital after a protracted illness.

My heart and prayers go to his Family, the government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Sokoto Caliphate and Sokoto State.

Nigeria and indeed Africa has lost a statesman and democrat whose wisdom, counsel, presence and experience and his sterling qualities of honesty and transparency are needed in these very trying moments of our national life.

President Shehu Shagari was a great patriotic leader and an accomplished gentleman, at first a teacher, an administrator, a technocrat and an honest decent unassuming simple Nigerian Leader.

He will be remembered for his tolerance and politics of peace without bitterness. President Shehu Shagari was a nationalist who never showed any discrimination due to ethnicity or religion and was a very dependable bridge builder.

To keep his memory alive Nigerian politicians and indeed all fellow Nigerians must put to practice all his ideals of peace and party politics without rancour, irrespective of any form of provocation.

I urge all persons vying for political office to emulate him and keep alive the political principles of the late Turakin Sokoto, Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, the quintessential public servant who was “Beckoned to Serve”.

I pray for the repose of his soul in Jannatul Firdaus. I pray that the entire nation, his Family, Sokoto State and indeed the Sokoto Caliphate will accept his passing with equanimity.

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I've no iota of respect for these past leaders who literally inhibited and ambitiously wrecked without conscience a one time giant of Africa.
Shehu Shagari presided over one of the ridiculously corrupt regime in this country and therefore not qualified for all these panegyric and hypocritical display!

I'm still hopeful and resolute that Nigeria one day will get it right.
I call on Nigerian Youths and patriotic citizens of this great country to shun evil, corruption and all anti-developmental tendencies.
Contribute your quota to the best of your knowledge and ability to make this country great again.
The task of nation building is for all citizens!

"WE MUST HOLD ON, BRING ON AND MOVE ON"
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria

To Whom it may concern!!

Stop digging my profile. Yep, You!! Exactly, you!! You!!
You are not welcome here. Stay away

Best regards,

This man left office and stopped every involvement in politics, a man of integrity
But IBB is almost dead and don't still want to leave politics alone

You people knew all these and truncated our democracy?