The former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, who first directed his country as a soldier and then as elected president, died on Sunday, July 13 at the age of 82, according to his former spokesman.
“The former president’s family announced the death of Muhammadu Buhari this afternoon at a clinic in London,” said Garba Shehu’s social networks, which was his spokesman (2015-2023).
Muhammadu Buhari ruled Nigeria with an iron fist as a soldier in the 1980s, before reinventing himself as a “converted Democrat”, carrying out two presidential mandates from 2015 to 2023.
The current president, Bola Tinubu, said in a statement that he had remained with Muhammadu Buhari’s wife and had instructed Vice President Kashim Shettima to go to England to repatriate the body to Nigeria.
Electoral victory
This 82 -year -old Muslim, from the northern end of Nigeria, marked the story by becoming, in 2015, the first opposition candidate to defeat a outgoing president in the surveys.
His electoral victory, in a country where the re -election of an exercise president seemed to be acquired, had been perceived as a rare opportunity for change for Nigeria.
But his adhesion to power did not solve the persistent problems of the country, in particular corruption, insecurity and economic difficulties facing this oil giant.
Source: BFM TV
