Tukur Mourns Chief Solomon Lar, Promises a Befitting Burial

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, said the party would ensure a befitting burial for the late Chief Solomon Lar, its pioneer national chairman.

Bamanga Tukur made this statement in Abuja on October 10, 2013.

In his briefing with the journalists, the PDP Chairman said the party would greatly miss Lar who was "a light in the political firmament."

Bamanga Tukur stressed that the vacuum created by the death of Lar would be difficult to fill "because he was an emancipator of the less privileged and a democrat of repute."

The PDP Chairman said Lar, as a former Governor of Plateau and one who had always been in the corridors of power, never compromised his stance.

He stated that although Lar was dead, the PDP leadership would continue to work toward ensuring enduring peace in the party.

This, according to him, was the desire of Lar as manifested symbolically in the white handkerchief he always waved at political meetings.

"It is a pity that Lar had gone, but we will continue to pray and ask for peace which he had already prayed for, "Tukur said.

He prayed God to grant his soul a peaceful rest and his family, the PDP family and the nation the fortitude to bear his loss.

It would be recalled that Chief Solomon Lar passed away in U.S. hospital on October 9, 2013, Wednesday.