ABDUL RAZAQ: The statesman as symbol of unity

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By Charles Kumolu, Deputy Features Editor

VIRTUALLY every aspect of his life is phenomenal. Each area presents an interesting symbolism about certain key ingredients that make Nigeria work.

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You won’t have the knowledge of his origin, school days and professional sojourn, without describing him as a “complete” Nigerian. Permit the use of such phrase, but Alhaji Folorunso Abdulrazaq qualifies as one.

His birth in Onitsha, South-East; secondary school days in Buguma, South- South; University days in Ibadan, South-West; early professional practice in Kaduna, North-West; and residency in Lagos, place him in a distinguished class of Nigerians. He speaks Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba fluently.

With such a background in a nation divided along ethnic and religious lines, the Illorin-born statesman qualifies as a unifying symbol. But these are not…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper