Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, on Saturday, described the demise of Hajiya Dada Yar’Adua as a personal loss to him.
According to Jonathan, the mother to late President Musa Yar’adua technically made him who he is.
Jonathan said this when he paid a condolence visit to the Yar’adua family in Katsina over the demise of the matriarch.
He said, “It is really touching to me. It was her son who brought me as his running mate and without this lady you wouldn’t have known my name. So she was like my mother and this is like the death of my mother.”
The former president said he was on his way to Kigali, Rwanda, when he heard about the death and as he returned to the country on Friday, he deemed it necessary to be in Katsina for the condolence.
It is a very sad moment for all of us. I travelled on Monday because I was going to Kigali. When I arrived at Adis Ababa our head of mission there told me about the sad news.
“On behalf of myself, my team, my community and my state, I extend our heartfelt condolences to the Yar’Adua family and indeed to the People of Katsina State.
“She was a mother that we lost, but Allah has blessed her. To live that long shows that Allah has accepted her. She was a good woman, she was a blessed woman, she brought children that contributed significantly to the development of our great nation,” he said.