Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Nsofor, is dead.
He was 85 years old.
The ambassador died on Thursday at a hospital in Maryland, United States.
In a message on Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari commiserated with the family, friends and associates of Nsofor.
In a telephone call to Jane, the widow of the retired justice in New York on Friday, the president described Nsofor as “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 Justice Nsofor delivered a minority judgment as a member of the Election Appeal Panel in favour of Gen. Buhari as candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, the president said the country would miss people with such exemplary pedigree.
Buhari, who has directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work with Justice Nsofor’s family on the burial arrangements, prayed God to comfort all who mourned the departed jurist and grant his soul eternal rest.
