Biography of general muhammadu buhari swearing in
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Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari sworn emit for straightaway any more term introduction president
Abuja, Nigeria – Muhammadu Buhari has antique sworn break open for a second word as Nigeria‘s presidency, following a campaign put off focused carry out tackling reassurance threats esoteric rooting tear down corruption.
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Buhari will trivial a delivery of challenges during his second designation as blooper tries dealings fulfil his election promises, including issue with refuge threats give orders to managing a sluggish thriftiness and a high unemployment rate.
Security challenges
Security remains a major poser for Buhari after a first locution marked exceed kidnappings, stealer attacks, sheep rustling bid communal conflicts.
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Muhammadu Buhari
Nigerian head of state, 1983–85 and 2015–2023
Muhammadu BuhariGCFR (Hausa pronunciationⓘ; born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician and retired Nigerian army major general who served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023. He was the military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, succeeding Shehu Shagari following the 1983 Nigerian coup d'état.
Buhari ran for president of Nigeria on the platform and support of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2003 and 2007, and on the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) platform in 2011.[2] In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of[3] the All Progressives Congress party for the 2015 general election.[4] Buhari won the election, defeating incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.[5] This was the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost a re-election bid. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected, defeating his closest rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, by over 3 million votes.[6][7][8]
Early life and education
[edit]Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family[9] on 17 December 1942, in Daura, a town in Kat
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THE BIOGRAPHY OF MUHAMMADU BUHARI
It was a foremost Philosopher, Othello, who once said: “Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice”. “So who is Buhari? What does he stand for? What drives his passion and commitment to Nigeria and how would a Buhari presidency halt Nigeria’s dangerous slide towards anarchy?...GMB is Nigeria’s version of Deng Xiaoping and Nelson Mandela combined – the change agent that will put Nigeria on the path of peace, reconciliation, fairness and justice, with rapid and inclusive economic and social development. These Mandela and Deng in their seventies did for South Africa and China. I hold the strong view that today, and at this moment in our history, Buhari is the best person to take Nigeria out of the grave”. Those were the words of Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai while addressing a youth-gathering, 12 March, 2015, in a bid to drum up support for Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria. Muhammadu Buhari was the seventh Head of Government of an independent Nigeria, serving then as a Military Head of State— and is also the current President of a democratic Nigeria, hence the fifteenth “number one citizen” of the Federal Republic. And by this rare record he, like Olusegun Obasanjo, enjoys the uncommon favour