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Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former army normal who campaigned on rooting out authorities corruption, has died at age 82, the presidential press workplace stated in an announcement on Sunday.
He died in London at about 4:30 p.m. after a “extended sickness,” in keeping with the assertion.
Nigeria’s present president Bola Ahmed Tinubu provided his condolences to Buhari’s spouse and ordered his vice chairman to journey to the UK to accompany Buhari’s physique again to Nigeria.
Tinubu hailed Buhari’s legacy as “a patriot, a soldier, a statesman” with a “deep dedication to the unity and progress” of his nation.
“He stood agency via essentially the most turbulent occasions, main with quiet energy, profound integrity, and an unshakable perception in Nigeria’s potential. He championed self-discipline in public service, confronted corruption head-on, and positioned the nation above private curiosity at each flip,” Tinubu stated.
Buhari was elected president in 2015 after working unsuccessfully 3 times. He was re-elected for one more four-year time period in 2019.
A former normal who first got here to energy in a 1983 army coup solely to be overthrown by one other army coup two years later, Buhari can be remembered for his sturdy anti-corruption agenda in a rustic famously described as “fantastically corrupt” by former British prime minister David Cameron. Others laud his robust stance in opposition to the Boko Haram insurgency and safety points that plagued the northeast of the nation for years.
A Fulani Muslim, he was born in Daura, Katsina state in Nigeria’s northern province in December 1942 and accomplished army coaching in Kaduna state, Nice Britain, India and the US.
He first got here into political prominence in 1975 after a army coup that overthrew then-ruler Yakubu Gowon. Buhari was made army governor of Borno state – a state affected by Boko Haram.
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