Jubilation In Aso Rock As Buhari Calls From UK To Commiserate With Akande

By Baron Ike
There was wild jubilation in Aso Rock and beyond yesterday, July 13 as President Muhammadu Buhari phoned in to commiserate with the interim chairman of the All Progressive congress (APC), Bisi Akande who lost his wife recently.
The phone call was the first the president would be making since he left for medics in London and may have put a lie to the assumptions of people like Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and Femi Fani-Kayode that Buhari is on live support and may not return to office.
Thursdays’s phone call by Buhari is the first he would be making since he left the country over 60 days ago.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made available to Journalists in Abuja a text of Buhari’s conversation with Akande.
Shehu said the President’s message to the bereaved reads:
“I received the very sad news of the death of your dearly beloved wife, Madam Omowunmi Akande, this morning. I am following our phone call with this letter of condolence, which comes from my heart.
“To lose a wife, a dear wife after 50 years, a constant and loving companion through good and bad times, is a blow only a man of unshakeable faith can withstand. Please extend my personal condolences to the immediate and wider Akande family, and to friends of the family for this irreparable loss.
“May Allah give you the strength and Iman to endure her passing away.”