What my husband told me before his death – Turai Yar’Adua

Hajiya Turai Umaru Musa Yar'adua has revealed how her husband, former President Umaru Musa Yar'adua once told her that his relatives would quarrel with her after his death as they would think he had left so much money.

The former first lady who spoke at a memorial lecture in honour of the late president in Katsina at the weekend, she also said "the late Yar'adua was not a materialist leader who believed in accumulating wealth. In fact, he shunned material things as his slogan was service to humanity.

"There was a time he said to me that 'Turai, I pity you because when I die you will have quarrels with my relatives because they will think I have so much money in my possession", she said.

She said the situation in Nigeria would have been better had the late president survived his ailment because he was a "focused, committed and determined leader".