Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote said on Friday that his mother watched her son Sani breathe his last.
Dangote described his younger brother’s last moments when the national leader of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu paid him a visit in Kano.
The businessman said Sani’s children were also by his deathbed.
“It was painful because he died in front of me, our mother and children,” he said.
Dangote noted that he was personally broken seeing his brother’s life leaving his body through the machines in the hospital.
He thanked Tinubu for the visit, saying he appreciates the brotherly relationship that has been established with the Tinubu family for a long time.
“The way people have been coming is really overwhelming. The visit will help us to reduce the pain especially for myself because we grew together.
“It was painful when they tell us he was going to die in few hours and we had to watch him take his last breath,” he said.
Tinubu was in Kano to condole with him on the death of his brother, the Vice Chairman of the Dangote Group of Company, Alhaji Sani Dangote.
“We have always known that when there is life there is death. We, as Muslims, don’t know who is next and it can be today, tomorrow or even now.
“That is why it is good to be good, so that when you get there you can bid for whatever you were asked to do on earth.
“Your excellency, you are our host because you are the governor of all of us and we really thank you for taking almost the whole week struggling with the crowds, its not easy.
“I thank you all for all your prayers and your support.
“This will actually help us to reduce the pain that we are going through,” Dangote added.
In his condolence message the APC leader, Tinubu stated that money cannot buy life and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
He called on the family to take heart and continue to pray for the repose of late Sani’s soul.
“We are here not to just commiserate or console you, we are here together to mourn our dear brother.
“Sani is not yours alone. He was a Lagosian and a great Nigerian and a friend and a brother to all of us here.
“I am not a preacher, but I know what it means to suddenly lose a close relation, especially a brother.
“What we have come to do is to join in prayers for you and the people of Kano state, for Nigeria and the entire family as a whole.
“May God give you the strength to bear the loss. It is a loss to all of us.
“May God grant you longer life, keep you in good health, keep the family in good health, give you peace of mind and the ability to accept the decree of God Almighty.
“He is the giver and the taker and He can do anything at any given time he chooses.
“With your faith and your strong capacity, we believe you will come out of it and continue to do good in his name, in your name, in the family’s name and the entire people of the country,” Tinubu stated.