President Buhari condoled with the Nigerian media, the Nda-Isaiah family, friends, and associates of the recently deceased.

“The country has lost a man of conviction, a resolute and dogged believer in a better Nigeria,” the statement quoted Buhari as saying.

“He will be sorely missed. This is a massive fish gone out of the media ocean,” the presidential spokesman further quoted the president as saying “of the pharmacist, renowned columnist, and one-time presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).”

The media mogul died on Friday night in Abuja after a brief illness. He was 58.