Nigeria needs women like HID Awolowo, says Aisha Buhari

The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Hajia Aisha Buhari, yesterday, said Nigeria needed good and honest women like the late Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo.

Hajia Buhari who was in Ikenne, the hometown of the late Sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo to pay condolence to the family over the death of Chief HID Awolowo was accompanied by wife of Vice-President,  Dolapo Osinbajo, a former  deputy governor of Plateau State, Pauline Tallen , wife of  immediate-past  governor of River State,  Judith Amaechi among others.

Mrs. Buhari who arrived Ikenne at 2:45 pm was received by the eldest child of Awolowo, Omotola Oyediran and some grand children of Awolowos .

In her remarks, Buhari described the death of mama HID Awolowo  as sad,  saying, she was informed of the planned centenary celebration of her  the first time she  visited mama during the electioneering.

She said, ” It is sad today to pay our respect our dear mother, grandmother and mother of the whole nation.

“We all know the role mama played as a dutiful mother, as a dutiful housewife and she was a role model to a lot of Nigerian women.

“We pray for the family, we pray for Mama, may her soul rest in perfect peace and may God give the family strength to bear the loss, because,  it is a great loss to the nation. There is the type of a woman that Nigeria needs, she was a backbone of the family”.

While welcoming the Wife of the President and her entourage,  the eldest daughter,  Omotola Oyediran said  President Buhari’s administration is toeing the steps of the late premier of western region,  Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

She assured the Wife of the President of support from Awolowo family to her husband government,  saying,  the family was overwhelmed with the visit of the wife of the President.

Oyediran however,  recalled how her mother died on September 19, saying,  she died as a fulfilled woman.