Late Hajiya Zainab Sidi Ali.
By Correspondent in Lokoja
The Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has joined other dignitaries to commiserate with the Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Haliya Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu over the death of her mother, Hajiya Zainab Sidi Ali.
The Minister’s Special Adviser on Communication and Logistics, A. Aliyu, in a release,said the deceased died on Tuesday evening, after a brief illness.
In a condolence message signed on Tuesday by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Muhammed Onogwu, Bello described such a loss as a heartfelt pain.
He said irrespective of how advanced in age the deceased was, “the loss of a mother creates a very big vacuum in one’s life that no amount of consolation could replace.”
The Governor urged the minister to take solace in the good life which Mama lived, acknowledging that the deceased raised good children with the record of adding value to humanity.
Governor said her death, although sudden, must be in total submission to the will of Almighty God.
He said: “Mama has laid good legacies.She lived her life, giving herself to raising her children, her family and community, she had also lived a pious life in reference to her creator as she served God and humanity compassionately until her death.”
Bello commiserated with the entire family and prayed God to grant Late Hajiya Zainab Sidi Ali eternal rest and those grieved, the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
