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Speaking with the NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA in New York on Wednesday, Prof. Ade Adefuye, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U. S., said the body of the late Chief Solomon Lar, will leave the U.S. on Friday and arrive in Nigeria on Saturday.
The late Lar, a former governor of Plateau and a former national chairman of PDP, died on Oct. 9 at the Inova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia.
According to NAN, a service of songs in honour of the deceased, who died at the age of 80, was held at the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington D.C. on Oct. 13.
In his tribute at the occasion, Adefuye had described the late Lar as a visionary leader who gave his all in the service of his fatherland.
Nigeria’s Ambassador to Canada, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, described the late Lar as “a great emancipator, peace maker and a great Nigerian’’.
“He is hard to replicate, he understands Nigeria and Nigeria understands him. He will surely be missed by many,” Maduekwe said. (NAN)