Shocking:1st PDP National Chairman Lived In Rented Apartment Till Death

 

NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC were yesterday told that the Bobo Street, off Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja  was a rented apartment where the late pioneer Chairman of PDP, Chief Solomon Lar lived until his death.

Receiving Tukur yesterday at the Number 13 Bobo Street, off Gana street, Abuja during a condolence visit to the family house of the late politician, his Special Assistant, Ambassador Danladi Wuyep  who disclosed that Lar  was a detribalised personality and politician who always preached peace, unity and Godliness, said  that he shared whatever he had to people around and was not into accumulating property which explained why he lived in a rented house as National Chairman of PDP and even after such a position, adding that he used his Certificate of Occupancies as collateral to  collect money from banks, solve peoples problems and then pay later.

“This house is a rented house because his money was for everybody. Sometimes he will use his land papers as collateral to collect money from the banks and share to the downtrodden; we will come to him as our father,” Wuyep told Tukur.

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With Tukur  were the PDP Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus ; National Organising Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha; National Auditor, Adewale Adeyanju; National Legal Adviser, Victor Kwon; Political Adviser to Tukur, Senator Abubakar Gada.

According to Wuyep, the late Lar even on his sick bed, was worried about the current crisis rocking the PDP and had always prayed that enduring peace and unity be enthroned in the party and a that if he were around, the crisis in the PDP which he termed nonsense would not  have happened. He prayed that his death would bring lasting peace to the PDP and Nigeria in general, even as he urged the PDP leadership to embrace peace as a mark of honour for the late Elder statesman.

Meanwhile, a PDP stalwart, Chief Arthur Eze who was touched by the revelation of Chief Lar’s family, immediately accepted to pay for the house, just as he said that Chief Lar made him what he is today, changed him from a poor man to his present status, adding that it was bad that the politician lived in a rented house in Abuja.

Also speaking after Wuyep had earlier  received Tukur and other members of NWC, daughter of late Chief Solomon Lar and member, federal House of Representatives, Beni Lar  who disclosed that the peace and unity of Nigeria was of great concern to her father until his death,  maintained that her father was a great father and a politician with great repute who  had great ideology, adding, “Daddy’s concern is that Nigerians live in unity and peace. Though  we all grief  today, we pray God to raise many more leaders that will have the kind of philosophy he had for Nigeria.”