Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, said former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on Monday declined an offer to visit his late father, Ibrahim Dasuki, in an Abuja hospital.
Dambazau said Sambo declined another offer to be in Sokoto for the mourning of his Father.
The minister disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Sokoto on Tuesday.
”We had discussed with the Director-General, DSS, yesterday and Sambo was offered to visit his late father on his hospital bed in Abuja.
”He declined and said he preferred to pray for him. He was also offered to be in Sokoto throughout the mourning period and he also declined, preferring to pray for his late father. That was the true situation,” Dambazau said.
The minister described the late Dasuki as a true nationalist, and prayed Allah for the repose his soul.
Ibrahim Dasuki, who was former Sultan of Sokoto from 1988 till he was deposed by late military dictator, Sani Abacha, in 1996, died on Monday in an Abuja Hospital at the age of 92.
He was buried in Sokoto on Tuesday.
