President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, over the demise of his elder brother, Dede Amaechi.

In a condolence message signed by Malam Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Buhari said that his thoughts and prayers were with the Amaechi family.

The message, which was made available to newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, quoted Buhari as praying God to give the people of Rivers the fortitude to bear the loss.

President Buhari urged the former Rivers governor to find strength in the notable legacies of his late brother.

In a related development, President Buhari has joined Muslims across the nation to mourn a leading Islamic cleric and jurist, Sheikh Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen, who passed on in Ilorin, Kwara, on Friday.

He was, until his death, the Khalifah Al-Adaby of Ansarul Islam Society of Nigeria.

The President’s condolence message was conveyed in a statement by Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday.

President Buhari described Kamaldeen’s demise as “a loss to the Emir of Ilorin, the Ilorin Community, Kwara State, Nigeria and the entire Muslim Community”.

“He was a front line Islamic jurist and an established technocrat who rose to the position of Permanent Secretary in government and Khalifah in the service of the Islamic faith,” he noted.

The President prayed to Allah to forgive Kamaldeen’s shortcomings, accept his return and grant him Jannatul Firdaus.

• Pieced together from NAN stories.