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Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has expressed “profound sadness” over the passage of the former presidential aided.
In a statement by his Director General, Media, Abdu Labaran, the governor said with Kyari’s demise, the nation had lost a great patriot.
Condoling with the president and the immediate family of the deceased, Masari said: “Nigeria has lost one of its finest citizens, whose lifetime was devoted to service of his fatherland.”
Also, his Borno State counterpart, Babagana Zulum, has suspended his three-day official engagement in Ngala Local Council of the state where to distribute relief materials to 45,000 households and women to mourn Kyari.
His spokesman, Isa Gusau, who made the disclosure at the weekend in Maiduguri, added that the governor mobilised internally displaced persons (IDPs) to offer prayers for the repose of the soul of the deceased that he regarded as “a rock.”
Also to eulogise him was the Shehu of Bama, his local council of origin, Alhaji Kyari Ibrahim El-Kanemi, who said the loss was a huge one to the community.
To the Secretary to the Borno Elders Forum (BOEF), Dr. Bulama Mali Gubio, Kyari was humble and incorruptible.
In the words of one of his childhood friends and a retired federal permanent secretary, Ambassador Baba Kura Kaigama, the ex-CoS was a pillar of the society.
According to the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in a statement by its president, Comrade Danielson Akpan, the later administrator was a pragmatic, honest and loyal leader.
In same fashion, erstwhile National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmad Muhammad Makarfi, regretted the passage in a statement yesterday in Kaduna.
Also mourning the departed were Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikemnwoli; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammed Musa Bello; one-time governor of Plateau State, Fidelis Tapgun; Ondo monarchs; South West All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Ekiti traditional rulers.
The list also included the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
Their eulogies were contained in their separate statements issued in Warri, Abuja, Jos, Lagos, Akure and Ado-Ekiti.
The FCT minister conveyed his feelings through his Chief Press Secretary, Anthony Ogunleye., while the Ondo monarchs communicated theirs via the Owa-Ale of Ikare Akoko, Oba Kolapo Adegbite-Adedoyin.
The Zonal APC Publicity Secretary, Karounwi Oladapo, signed for the ruling party while the chairman of Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers and the Alawe of Ilawe-Ekiti, Oba Adebanji Ajibade Alabi communicated the mood of the council.
Moreover, the NIMN sent its condolences through a letter signed by the President and Chairman of Council, Tony Agenmonmen, and dispatched to President Buhari.
That of NMA was signed by its president, Dr. Francis Faduyile, while Rev. (Dr.) Samson Ayokunle issued CAN’s in his capacity as the association’s national president.