Personalities have continued to throng Nasarawa in Nasarawa State to condole with the Emirate over the demise of the emir, His Royal Highness Alhaji Hassan Ahmad II, on Thursday, at 83 years.

The First Class monarch who ascended the throne on February 17, 2004, died at an Abuja hospital. His remains have since been buried in Nasarawa in accordance with Islamic injunctions.

The funeral prayer was attended by the Nasarawa State Governor, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, members of the State Executive Council and traditional rulers from within and outside the state among other personalisties.

President Muhammadu Buhari had in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said the late emir would be long remembered and honoured as “an advocate for peace, dialogue and reconciliation and a firm believer that a better future awaits Nigeria.”

Born on April 2, 1935, the late emir was in Course 01 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru from 1979 to 1980 and served for eleven years a Director-General of Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Jos, Plateau State.