The former Minister of Communications
to President Ibrahim Babangida military regime, retired Gen. Tanko Ayuba, has
passed to the great beyond at a Lagos hospital on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at the age of 71,
reports ITRealms.
Reacting to Ayuba’s demise,
the current Honourable Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, while
commiserating with the family, described late General as a gentleman officer
and politician.
Also, the Special
Assistant on Media to Communications Minister, Mr. Victor Oluwadamilare, said, the
Minister condoled the family of the former minister who served during the
Babangida military regime, urging the family to find solace in the quality of
service rendered by the former minister to his fatherland in various formations
of the Nigerian Army, as a Military Governor of Kaduna State and a Senator
representing Kebbi State.
He eulogized late Gen
Ayuba, saying the former military top brass gave an enviable direction to the
Communication sector when he served as minister between 1985 and 1987.
Shittu also sympathized
with the people of Kebbi State, where he hailed from, the people of Kaduna
State where he served as a military governor and Nigerians in general, adding
that the contributions of the late Gen. Ayuba to communications cannot be
over-emphasized.
“It is indeed the
traceable footprints left behind by Gen. Ayuba in the Communications ministry
that subsequent ministers have been building upon and this will spur someone
like me to work harder to leave more indelible marks on the sand of time
in the ministry”, he said.
Barr. Shittu said the
death of Gen. Ayuba was a great and irreparable loss to the nation at such a
crucial time when his immeasurable wealth of experience could count as well as
monumental loss to the military which he served diligently.
He prayed that Almighty
Allah grant the soul of the departed former minister Al-janah Firdaws and give
his family the fortitude to bear the loss.
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