LAR WAS A GREAT ASSET TO NIGERIA – KANO KINGMAKER
District Head of Dambatta in Kano State, Alhaji Mukhtar Adnan yesterday extolled the late Chief Solomon Daushep Lar who died in the US on Wednesday, describing him as a great asset to the country.
The elder statesman in an interview yesterday said Nigeria needs more people like Lar who spent his life promoting unity in the country.
“We need patriotic persons like him. Lar was an asset to Nigeria; he was more at home in northern attire. He was a true northerner, a true Nigerian who spent his life promoting the unity of the country. His death was not a loss to the people of Plateau State alone but to the entire country,” he said.
Recalling how he first met Solomon Lar, the district head who is one of the kingmakers in Kano State said he met Lar at a railway station in Kaduna in the 60s.
“We met at a railway station in Kaduna south in the 60s. We were all travelling to Lagos but when Lar arrived at the railway station, there was no first class ticket, so I accommodated him. He entered and we travelled together with him and my wife. From then, our relationship blossomed as we became very close,” the 87-year-old kingmaker said.
“We need patriotic persons like him. Lar was an asset to Nigeria; he was more at home in northern attire. He was a true northerner, a true Nigerian who spent his life promoting the unity of the country. His death was not a loss to the people of Plateau State alone but to the entire country,” he said.
Recalling how he first met Solomon Lar, the district head who is one of the kingmakers in Kano State said he met Lar at a railway station in Kaduna in the 60s.
“We met at a railway station in Kaduna south in the 60s. We were all travelling to Lagos but when Lar arrived at the railway station, there was no first class ticket, so I accommodated him. He entered and we travelled together with him and my wife. From then, our relationship blossomed as we became very close,” the 87-year-old kingmaker said.
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