PRESIDENT JONATHAN EULOGISES LATE YAKOWA AS HE IS BEEN LAID TO REST IN HIS COUNTRY HOME.

President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday led a Federal Government delegation to the burial of Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Yakowa, in his hometown, Fadan-Kagoma, Kaduna State.Yakowa died on Saturday, December 15, 2012  in a helicopter crash at Okoroba in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State along with a former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi; and four others.

In a tribute at the burial service held at St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Jonathan described Yakowa as a “bridge builder” who loved his people irrespective of their religion and tribe, the President described December 15 as a “dark Saturday.”

Yakowa was a nationalist. He played his roles very well as a civil servant of old, not as a civil servant of today when a director has more houses than Dangote. No ethnic or religious divide in his blood,” the President said.

The remains of Governor Patrick Yakowa has been laid to rest in his country home in Kaduna.