Former President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the poor and migrants have lost a friend with the death of Pope Francis on Monday.
This came as he expressed the hope that Israel and Hamas would heed the Pontiff’s call for an end to the war in Gaza.
In a release by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari joined Christians all across the world in mourning the demise of the Head of the Catholic Church.
Reacting to the news of his death, the former President said Christians in Nigeria and all over the world would miss the exemplary leadership of the church by a pope who served the poor and the weak, and cared much about migrants and refugees.
“He was a Pope who strove to build a beneficial, complementary relationship between the followers of the world’s two greatest religions- Islam and Christianity.
Just hours before his demise, he made a call for an end to the war in Gazzah. I hope Israel and Hamas will heed his this call as a final respect to the Pope who had the distinction of bringing climate change to the Vatican and recognising the Palestinian State,” said the former president.
The former president wished for a new leader who would build on the inspiring legacies of Pope Francis.
