Atiku , ACF Mourn Galadiman Kano

By Lawal A. Dogara, Kaduna
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that the Kano Emirate Council has lost a prized asset with the demise of the Galadiman Kano, Dr Tijjani Hasheem who passed away on Monday.
The former Vice President said in a condolence message by his media office in Abuja on Monday that Hasheem’s influence had become so profound that he had earned an oracular father figure in the emirate before his passage.
The Turaki Adamawa paid tribute to Hasheem for having lived a fulfilled life spent on community service and in peace-building in the Kano Emirate.
“The people of Kano have lost a prized asset, who spent most of his life and times pursuing peace and communal harmony among his people. As the Galadiman Kano, he was a strong confidant and adviser to the Emir of Kano and was the strong backbone of the late Emir Ado Bayero’s reign and contributed immensely to the love and respect that characterised that era,” Atiku said.
He expressed his condolences to the Kano State government, the Emir and people of Kano Emirate Council and the family of Dr. Tijjani Hasheem.
Atiku prayed God to receive the soul of Tijjani Hasheem in al-janna firdaus, fill the vacuum his death has caused in the Emirate and give the family the fortitude to bear the loss of their patriarch.
Also ,the Northern Socio – Cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF on Monday described the death of former Minister in the Northern Regional Government of late Sardaunan Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, and the most senior counselor in Kano Emirate, Alhaji Tijjani Hashim as an irreparable loss to the North and the country as a whole.
ACF in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu said the Galadiman Kano, lived as one of the most influential Prince of Kano whose influence was not only felt in Kano but the North in general.
According to the statement, “ACF learnt with great shock the passing on of Alhaji Tijjani Hashim, Galadiman Kano aged 79, the most senior counselor in Kano Emirate.
“The late Galadiman Kano was a Minister in the then Northern Regional Government of late Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sokoto. After the military coup of 1966, Alhaji Hashim joined Kano emirate as a counselor with the title of Turaki and was later promoted to the position of Galadiman Kano.
“He lived as one of the most influential Prince of Kano, a philanthropist and an adherent of culture and tradition whose influence was not only felt in Kano but the North in general. ACF and indeed Nigeria would miss his wise counseling and wisdom.
“ACF mourns the death of Galadiman Kano, Alhaji Tijjani Hashim and prays Almighty Allah to forgive his sins and grant him Aljannah Firdaus.
“It equally extends its condolences to his immediate family, Kano Emirate, the Government and people of Kano state over this irreparable loss,” the statement however said.