The father of the five-year-old girl, who was killed by her teacher in Kano state, Alhaji Abubakar Abdulsalam, said he was honoured to have been visited by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
The Vice President on Tuesday visited the family of Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil killed after she was abducted in her school in Kano State.
The Vice President commiserated with the family of the slain girl after speaking at the National Law Teachers Association Conference held at the Bayero University in Kano.
The Vice President accompanied by Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, some members of the National Assembly, including Sen. Kabiru Gaya, among others, were received at the residence of the slain schoolgirl, by her father and mother.
Alhaji Abdulsalam expressed gratitude to the President, the Vice President and the governor for the visit and the condolences.
The visibly emotional father of the deceased, described the Vice President’s visit as an honour to his entire family, praying for God’s blessings on the President, Osinbajo and for peace in the country.
According to him, “I am rather speechless, I don’t have enough words to quantify my joy and gratitude over the visit of the Vice President to my family to condole with me.
“As I told him, it should be the other way round, the Vice President is our father; we are supposed to go and pay him a visit, not him coming to us. However, I am grateful, I am sincerely honoured. The only thing I will say is to pray for him and the entire nation, that peace will reign.”
He expressed appreciation at the visit by Osinbajo.
Prayers were offered for the departed and the Vice President expressed condolences on behalf of the President and himself to the family, the deceased mother, Murjanatu, and the father.
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