Solomon Lar was friend of Igbos – Ngige

Senator Chris Ngige , All Progressives
Congress, APC, gubernatorial candidate in
the November 16 Anambra State election
said he received with sadness the passing
of Mr Solomon Lar, elder Statesman, former
Governor of old Plateau State and former
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
Ngige in a press release made on his behalf
by his media aide, Mr Okelo Madukaife
recalled the great working relationship he
personally shared with Lar, while working
as Assistant National Secretary of the PDP
and later governor of Anambra State and
noted that with his passing, the Lar family,
people of Plateau and Nassarawa States
and the entire membership of the PDP had
suffered a great loss.
While noting that history would be kind to
Lar, Senator Ngige pledged his commitment
to the replication of the ideals of humility,
teamwork, progressivism which Lar stood
for and for which he would be
remembered by generations.
Ngige who described Lar as a great friend
of the Igbos, said he left at a time when
many of such voices are required to add to
those making a case to reposition Ndigbo
along with its leaders in the national
scheme.
Ngige urged the family of Lar, the good
people of Plateau and Nassarawa States,
and all who are immediately and remotely
bereaved by this sad occurrence to bear it
with equanimity “as God gave and the Lord
has taken Solomon Lar away, while his
legacies remain”.