It is True, Baba Abba Kyari Has Passed On Last Night
The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Abba Kyari, has died after testing positive to COVID-19 3 weeks ago. He bowed to the hand of death through the Covid-19 in the late hours of Friday April 17, 2020.
According to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, Mr. Kyari dies on Friday. he announced via his twitter handle
Femi Adesina✔@FemAdesina
Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, passes on. May God rest his soul. Amen. Funeral arrangements to be announced soon.Another of the President’s spokespersons, Mr Garba Shehu, who also tweeted about the development said Mr Kyari died on Friday.
Garba Shehu✔@GarShehu
The deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19, and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020.
Garba Shehu✔@GarShehu
May God accept his soul.
Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.
Mr. Kyari confirmed the news in a statement on March 29, the same day President Buhari made his first nationwide broadcast on the pandemic and announced a two-week lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
In his statement, Mr Kyari revealed that he would be transferred to Lagos from the FCT for treatment and expressed the hope that he would recover and return to work soon.
At the time, Mr. Kyari said he felt well and did not exhibit any signs of the disease, which has now infected 493 people in the country and claimed 17 lives, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
A Kanuri from Borno, Mr Kyari was one of President’s Buhari’s closest allies.
Appointed Chief of Staff in August 2015, he was considered one of the most influential and powerful members of the Buhari administration.
Prior to his foray into politics, Mr Kyari had a professional career as a lawyer and spent years in the banking industry, rising to become the Chief Executive Officer of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) at some point.
