To the average Nigerian, Hajiya Dada Yar’Adua hardly existed. This is because you didn’t hear her voice being quoted in the dailies, nor was she a champion of any issue of national importance as to attract public attention.
Yet, politicians felt indebted to her and they jostled one another to go do obeisance to a woman who was not only the wife of a ‘king,’ but was also mother to president, minister, lawmaker; and grandmother to at least two first ladies of states.
See the photographs of some of the politicians who had paid homage at the late Hajiya Dada Yar’Adua’s feet while she was here:
