Segun Fagbemi, Ilorin.
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commiserated the family, friends, associates, and the people of Ilorin, Kwara, and Nigeria on the death of “a fine soldier,” administrator, and community leader Major General Mohammed Abdullahi Adangba at the age of 86.
Apart from his distinguished career as a commissioned officer of the Nigerian Army, General Abdullahi Adangba was at various times a military Governor of Benue-Plateau State; Director General of the defunct National Security Organisation (NSO); National Security Adviser to former Military leader Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar; and Chief of Staff to former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Umar Musa YarAdua; among other senior roles he played in Nigeria.
AbdulRazaq yesterday in a statement in Ilorin by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye said the death of General Adangba remained a profound loss not just to the Ilorin Emirate but to the entire nation, calling it a painful closure of a bright page in Nigeria’s political and military history.
He therefore sent his heartfelt condolences to the Emir of Ilorin Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari and the people of the Emirate, the family of the late General, and the military hierarchy on the development.
The governor prayed God to rest his soul and give the family patience to bear the huge loss.