Okoro Chinedu
08:03 09/06/2015
Lagos - Senator for the Rivers South East Constituency of Rivers
State, Magnus Abe, has paid tribute to Archbishop Friday Osaro Nwator,
the late Special Adviser on Health to former President Shehu Shagari.
Nwator,
the former President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has been
laid to rest in his home-town, Ogale in Eleme local government area of
the state.
In his tribute, Abe described the late Nwator, who was
the first medical doctor from Eleme local government area of Rivers
State, as a man of God in many ways, all of which were wonderful and
exemplary.
Abe said the deceased Archbishop did not only take care
of his immediate family but extended the same to all who were opportune
to come in contact with him.
He advised the family to take solace in the fact that he lived an exemplary life.
“He has gone to rest in the bosom of his maker,” Abe said.
In
his sermon at the funeral service held at Otor-Eleme Civic Centre, a
cleric, and senior Pastor of Redemption Ministries, Stephen Akinola,
urged Christians to emulate the virtues of the late Archbishop.
He stressed that the late Nwator touched lives positively in his lifetime.
Among
dignitaries at the funeral service were the former Governor of the old
Rivers State, Chief Rufus Ada-George; the Chairman of Rivers State
Traditional Rulers Council and President Supreme Council of Ogoni
Traditional Rulers, Godwin Gininwa, and Dr Dakuku Adol Peterside, the
All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the governorship, among
others.
Until his death on April 6 at the age of 74, Nwator was
the President of the Integrity Bishops and Faithful Ministers Network
Worldwide and a member of Nigeria’s first Constituents Assembly in 1977,
an Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), a philanthropist and
bridge-builder.
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