What Maitama Sule Told President Buhari Before His Death

At 88 years, Maitama Yusuf Sule, a two-time minister and former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations died.
Sule, died in the early hours of Monday while on admission at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt. He was flown to the Egyptian hospital on Saturday after doctors at Kano’s Nasarawa Hospital diagnosed him of pneumonia and chest infection.

Sule, before his death, led the Northern Leaders Forum delegates to visit the president Buhari when he won the 2015 general elections. He among other Northern leaders advised Buhari to be just and fair to all Nigerians.

“It is the same Buhari that gave Nigeria a sense of direction when he was a military leader, this time around I’m sure Allah has brought him to correct the ills of the past, to reform,” he had said.

“But it was easy when you were there as a military leader, but what made it easy, justice.

“With justice you can rule Nigeria well, justice is the key, if you do justice to all and sundry, and I say all and sundry because Allah says; ‘If you are going to judge between two people, do justice irrespective of the tribe, religion or even political inclination. Justice must be done to whosoever deserves it.”


Nigeria Bulletin