Reports have it that Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari has lost of one of his family physicians, Dr Marliya Zayyana. The medical practitioner was a former Chairperson of the Governing Council of Federal University Dutsinma, Katsina State.
Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, quoted the President as describing the late physician as an outstanding medical professional. “President Buhari is greatly saddened over the death of Dr. Marliya Sunusi Zayyan the former Chairperson of the Governing Council Federal University Dutsinma.
“Marliya was not only a distinguished medical doctor, but she was also a woman of integrity as her tenure the Federal University Dutsinma had testified.” According Buhari, “her demise is particularly touching because she was my family doctor in addition to the fact that her brother, Dr. Suhayb Rafindadi is also my personal physician.”
He described her death “as a personal loss because of our close association with her.” The President extended his condolences to the family of the deceased, the Katsina Emirate Council and the Katsina State Government over what he called “the loss of this great, talented, dedicated and selfless medical professional.”
