Obasanjo Commiserates With South African President , Family,Over Desmond Tutu's Death - FIRST AWARENESS

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Obasanjo Commiserates With South African President , Family,Over Desmond Tutu's Death



           Late Desmond Tutu

By Niyi Ogungbola
Former President of Nigeria,  Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has Commiserated with the President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa and family of Desmond Tutu with a recall on  the role played by late Desmond Tutu in getting the country's debt cancelled, declaring that his death was a personal loss to him.

"The news of the demise of our very dear and beloved The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu got to me with the feeling of a sense of personal loss.  It is with this same feeling that I write to commiserate with you, his family members and the entire good people of South Africa on the passing of this great son of Africa.  

"Reverend Tutu was a patriotic and highly respected Teacher, Preacher, Intercessor and Field Commander of the Lord’s Army.  He symbolized one of our finest examples of how a life truly dedicated to our Saviour Jesus Christ can make a difference.  He had been a difference-maker for his family, his friends, his flock, his community, the Church, the Republic of South Africa and, indeed, the world."Obasanjo stated.
 
Obasanjo in a condolence letter to the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday,  stated that "Over the years, Reverend Tutu had shown focused, credible, bold, sensitive and purposeful leadership not just to members of the Anglican Church but to all Christians."

The letter, which was released to the media by his Special Assistant on Media,  Kehinde Akinyemi, added Tutu had been part of building and strengthening the Anglican Church, and its eminent place in the Church system in South Africa today is not unrelated to his selfless service and leadership."

On the country's debt cancellation role, Obasanjo said that he acknowledged late Tutu's "uncommon solidarity and the deep passion with which he had argued Nigeria’s case for full debt cancellation by the contents of his letter to Mr. Gordon Brown, the then United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, during my administration as the President of Nigeria.

"This heroic advocacy effort of his with respect to Nigeria’s indebtedness to the Paris Club on behalf of Nigeria was very much in his character."

Obasanjo told Ramaphosa that "Reverend Tutu was a patriotic and highly respected Teacher, Preacher, Intercessor and Field Commander of the Lord’s Army.  He symbolized one of our finest examples of how a life truly dedicated to our Saviour Jesus Christ can make a difference.  He had been a difference-maker for his family, his friends, his flock, his community, the Church, the Republic of South Africa and, indeed, the world.


Meanwhile,First Awareness reports that, late anti-apartheid's  Icion, pro-democracy guru and human rights crusader died earlier Sunday at age 90.

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