President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the Nelson family over the death of former Southwest Zonal Women Leader of the All Progressives (Congress APC), Chief Kemi Nelson.
In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, Buhari, who conveyed First Lady Aisha Buhari’s condolences along with his, described Nelson as “a frontline politician and advocate of the womenfolk”.
The President also sent condolences to the Government and people of Lagos State, Presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Lagos APC family, on the loss of “a consistent and faithful party member who devoted so much to the evolution, development, sustenance and relevance of the party in Lagos and around the country.”
Buhari noted the contributions of Nelson as a former Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation in Lagos State, the State Women Leader, National Deputy Women Leader of APC, and former Executive Director of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, remarking that she was such a grassroots mobiliser and an achiever who left her footprints wherever she served.
“As the only female member of the Lagos State Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Kemi Nelson continued to be part of the governance structure that led to the transformation of Lagos State into the Centre of Excellence it has become,” he said.
The President prayed that almighty God will grant the husband, Adeyemi Nelson and the family, friends and associates of the deceased, the fortitude to bear the loss and repose her soul.