The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and former Vice President Namadi Sambo have joined other leaders to mourn the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari.
Kyari passed on on April 17 following complications from COVID-19 infection.
Prince Charles, in his condolence letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, described Kyari’s death as “a desperately sad news,” and sent his “deepest possible sympathy” to Buhari and the government and people of Nigeria.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement, said the crown prince, Kagame and Sambo expressed sadness over the death of the chief of staff.
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Prince Charles, in a condolence letter to the president, lamented that the death of Kyari occurred through this “pernicious virus…”
He added: “I can only begin to imagine what an immense gap Mr. Kyari’s untimely death will leave in Your Excellency’s life and my heart goes to you and Mr. Kyari’s family.”
Kagame, in his condolence message through the Embassy of Rwanda in Abuja, said the government and people of Rwanda mourned with Nigeria and its people over Kyari’s death.
He seized the occasion “to express solidarity to the government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as we are faced with the COVID-19 global crisis.”
Sambo, in his own message to the president, described the death of Abba Kyari as a “monumental national loss.”
