The National Chairman Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, said that Nigeria has lost one of its most compassionate and humane leaders in the late former President, Alhaji Shehu  Shagari.

Secondus in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi, on Saturday, in Abuja, said that Shagari was the last man among principled leaders upon whom the democratic foundation of the country was established.

He said that the Shagari as President in the Second Republic ensured that his reign caused minimal pain to the people because of his humane approach to governance.

The national chairman said that Nigeria would miss Shagari’s fatherly counsel, especially at this time when the country is passing through difficult challenges ahead of a major election.

“The Second Republic president will be remembered for his principled approached to governance and his God-fearing disposition as evidenced in the way and manner he piloted the affairs of the country within the ambit of the rule of law, without nepotism, bias of religion, tribe or geography from 1979 to 1983,” Secondus said.

The PDP national chairman further said that the former president’s legacies in the political evolution in the county would endure.

Adding that Nigerian politicians had great things to learn from the way and manner Shagari operated while he held sway in the nation’s polity.

He said that the PDP had a lot in common with the late president in the development of democracy in the country and said that he would be greatly missed.

He disclosed that the PDP had already sent its condolences to the Governor of Sokoto state, Rt Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and the entire Shagari family, on behalf of the National Executive Committee and members of the party at home and abroad.

Secondus charged the people of Sokoto state and the immediate family of the late former president to take solace in the fact that Shagari lived a peaceful life and left behind huge legacies as a teacher, politician, and father.