President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerian youths to imbibe the virtues of hard work and resourcefulness passed down by the late Murtala Mohammed who died forty years ago.
The president who was speaking at the Murtala Mohammed 40th anniversary Memorial Lecture in Abuja described the late Head of State as exceptional, saying that the shadow of his death still hangs over Nigeria.
The Memorial Lecture on Regional Security and State Building was delivered by the former Chief of Defence Staff to the United Kingdom, Lord David Richards.
He emphasised the need for command and control over strategy and tactics if the military must succeed in the fight against insurgency.
“The shadow of his death still somewhat hangs over Nigeria.
“We are here to honour our national hero and patriot and not to mourn him and take a new lesson of his achievement, his love for Nigeria and Nigerians from wherever they came, his intense professionalism, his impatience for incompetence and lack of patriotism, his loyalty to friends and colleagues.
“His life was marked by extraordinary energy and determination to do better and to make Nigeria better.
“These are values that the young and old alike should all remember and celebrate,” President Buhari stressed.