“To you, Your Excellency, I say take heart,” Tinubu wrote in a condolence letter to Gen. Buhari, which he signed. He said: “As good Muslims, we know Allah giveth and Allah taketh away. All we owe Him at all times is thanks. I pray that Allah should give you the equanimity of the spirit to weather this storm.”
The former Lagos State governor, however, admitted that losing a grown-up daughter, and at childbirth, was painful and irreparable, adding that he received the news with great shock and sadness.
“I pray that Allah grant her soul sweet repose.”
Condoling with the Muhammadu Buhari family of Katsina in Katsina State, Tinubu prayed for Zuliaha’s widower and their three children, Amira, Mohammed and the two-day old baby girl.
“May the children grow up healthy, and may God guide the hands of the widower as he raises them without their loving mother,” he wrote.
The Action Congress of Nigeria also commiserated with Gen. Buhari on the death of Mrs. Zuliaha Ibrahim, saying the party’s leadership and members share the pain brought by her untimely death.
In a statement issued in Kaduna yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said although no words are strong enough to ease the pain brought by Zuliaha’s death, “Gen. Buhari should be assured that he is in our every thought and prayer at this difficult time.”
ACN said it has no doubt that his faith in God and strength “will see him through this difficult period.”
“Please, accept our condolences on your loss. As we grieve with you, we pray that God will comfort you and the family and strengthen you to bear this loss,” the party said.
It prayed: “May God grant eternal rest to the departed, and may His light shine upon her.”
Eminent national leaders under the aegis of the Project Nigeria – National Consensus Group – also commiserated with Gen. Buhari on the death of Zuliaha, 40, who died on Saturday night from sickle cell anemia, following complications after being delivered of a baby two days earlier at Chasel Hospital, Ungwar Sarki in Kaduna.
The political group, led by leaders such as Prof. Ben Nwabueze, Alhaji Maitama Sule, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, Chief Audu Ogbeh, among others, in a statement issued at the weekend in Lagos by its National Secretary, Sir Olawale Okunniyi, condoled with the former head of state and the husband of the deceased.
The group prayed that God should give the Buhari and Ibrahim families the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
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