The family members of Nigeria’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu have today extended an olive branch to no fewer than 600 indigent patients and vulnerable women in Adamawa state in commemoration of his 64th birthday.
Ribadu was born on 21st November, 1960.
The organizing secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Mustapha Atiku Ribadu accompanied by the children of the NSA and other family members in a rare show of solidarity visited major hospitals in Yola, including the specialist hospital and Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital (MAUTH) where they donated N50,000 cash and food items to 300 indigent patients.
The team also extended the same gesture to another set of 300 less privileged women, including widows, PLWD, and the aged.
Speaking on the rationale for the gesture, Mustapha Atiku Ribadu said it was done in appreciation of God’s bountiful mercies for the life of one of Nigeria’s rarest patriots and finest sons.
“The family of Mallam deemed it fit to undertake this gesture to the less privileged members of the society including indigent patients, widows, PLWD and the aged as a show of thank to Allah for the life of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
“Mallam has lived a life full of sacrifice and there is no better way to celebrate him other than to extend this gesture to the less privileged members of the society in appreciation of Allah’s bounties and mercies to a noble man and an excellent ambassador.
“Mallam is one personality who embodies love, commitment, sacrifice, and above all, the fear of Allah. Such unique virtues stand him tall amongst contemporaries, and for such very outstanding qualities, we felt duty bound to honour him by celebrating him in this manner,” he said.
Appreciating the gesture, the medical doctor of Yola Specialist Hospital, Dr. Dauda Wadinga said the show of love was rare and unprecedented as almost all the patients in the wards have been impacted.
He thanked Ribadu’s family for the gesture, which he said will go a long way in alleviating the plight of the indigent patients, especially in consideration of the hardship people are going through.
Similarly, a beneficiary, Malama Saudat Sani, thanked the Ribadu family for the support, saying that it will go a long way in alleviating the hardship their families are going through.
