A former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon (retd), has claimed that the sudden death of former president, Umaru Musa Yar’adua, was what stopped Nigeria from becoming a better country. Gowon mentioned that Nigeria would have been a better country if President Yar’adua had completed his tenure while speaking during a first President Umaru Musa Yar’adua international leadership conference in Abuja. Yar’adua became president in 2007, but in 2010, he died as a result of ill- health.