President Muhammadu Buhari has described Nigeria’s late Ambassador to the United States, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, as a man of rare courage.
In a telephone conversation with the widow of the retired justice, Jane, in New York on Friday, Buhari said Nsofor was “an outstanding judge of rare courage and truth who is not afraid to give justice to whom justice is due.”
Apparently referring to the 2003 presidential election during which Nsofor delivered a minority judgment as a member of the Election Appeal Panel in favour of General Buhari as the candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the President said the country will miss people with such exemplary pedigree.
President Buhari in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, also directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work with Justice Nsofor’s family on the burial arrangements.
He prayed to God to comfort all who mourn the departed jurist and grant his soul eternal rest.