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Muhammadu Buhari, who was President of Nigeria for eight years after serving as the head of the state, died at the age of 82.
BettingAccording to a spokesman for his successor, President Bola Tinubu, two terms of office died on Sunday afternoon as President Nigeria from 2015 to 2023 in London.
Buhari’s death marks the end of a public career that is reconciled both in the military and in democratic politics.
He rose to the rank of a general before he conquered power in a coup in 1983, one of a series of army officers who had interrupted Nigeria’s aspiring democracy after the independence of Great Britain in 1960. In 1985, Buhari himself dropped power by another general 20 months after his Junta.
Buhari then tried to lead Nigeria through the ballot paper after the most populous nation of Africa had returned to democracy in 1999. In 2003, 2007 and 2011 he was a presidential candidate and lost every time against rivals of the reigning People’s Democratic Party.
Buhari was accused of stimulating violence after his defeat in 2011 when hundreds of people were killed in sectarian attacks. In a report after the election, it was found that Buhari’s comments before the elections could have contributed to the violence of his supporters. Buhari always denied the accusations.
Buhari reinvented as a “Reformed Democrat”, Buhari Finally the coveted presidency won After creating an alliance with Tinubu in 2015 to create the All Progressive Congress Coalition for the PDP.
The alliance allowed him to expand his vocation beyond his large power base in the northern provinces to South Nigeria.
Buhari defeated the reigning goodluck Jonathan after running on an anti -corruption platform and the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram had won the world’s attention for the kidnapping of 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls in the northeast of the country last year.
The breathtaking victory was the first time that an opposition leader had defeated an incumbent in the history of the country. Buhari was re -elected 2019.
A strict Muslim, known for his ascetic lifestyle and his disciplinary attitude, which marked his term as a military leader, slowly began his term as a democratic president. He took six months to appoint his first cabinet and earned him the nickname “Baba-Go-Slow” in relation to the country’s traffic problems.
Buhari was not supported by a decline in crude oil prices. The growth collapsed and the standard of living crater crater in office with two recessions in his eight years.
He returned to some of the self -sufficient economic policy that he and other generals preferred in the 1980s, e.g.
Despite some early successes against Boko Haram, Buhari supervised a time of increasing uncertainty.
The violence spread from the northeastern stronghold of the Islamist group on almost all corner of the country, with several groups doing activities such as kidnapping for ransom and attacks on farmers and a separatist uprising in the southeast.
The authoritarian strip of Buhari’s military day pulled his head when he forbidden x in 2021.
His government was also accused of civil rights. At least human rights groups said 10 people were killed of security forces who shot on demonstrators in Lagos during the anti-policy brutality protests in October 2020.
Since Buhari said goodbye to London for a long time that was not announced, his term was often shaped by rumors about illness. In 2018, Buhari was even forced to refuse speculation that he had died and had been replaced by a body -double -Jubril from the Sudan.
Buhari said he heard that he was “cloned”, but emphasized “it is real ego, I assure you”.
