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Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria: a Brief Profile

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Muhammadu Buhari

General Muhammadu Buhari, now President Muhammadu Buhari was born in Daura, Katsina State in Nigeria in December 17, 1942. After his secondary school, he became interested in the military and started it in the old Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC), now Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna. That was in 1961.

He proceeded to the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot in England and became a commissioned officer afterwards.

In 1965, he went for the Mechanical Transport Officers’ Course at the Army Mechanical Transport School in Borden, England. He went to the Defence Services’ Staff College, Wellington, India in 1973 and to the United States Army War College from June 1979 to June 1980.


Muhammadu Buhari was a mastermind of December 31st, 1985 coup which ousted a democratically elected government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. 

His administration was fraught with blunders which included the Umaru Dikko botched kidnap otherwise known as the Umaru Dikko Saga in which he arranged with a handful of Israelis to unlawfully invade U.K to kidnap Dikko for extradition and persecution on corruption when it became obvious to him that London was not going to agree to any bargain with him.

The operation was intercepted and aborted by the swift intervention of the government of the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland. This singular diplomatic faux pas severed the relations between the two countries.

He introduced the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) which was aimed at spoon-feeding Nigerians with discipline overnight. The rate of violations of the dignity of human persons in the programme remained a scar on the face of Nigeria's historical repertoire.

He emerged the the winner of the 2015 presidential election of Nigeria in which he defeated the incumbent, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in an arguably free and fair election.

He ran unsuccessfully for the post in 2003, 2007 and 2011 until his persistence and circumstances that brought about disenchantment by Nigerians on the government of PDP and that of Jonathan, determined his victory in 2015 at the age of 72.  
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