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Mohammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari in Saadabad Palace.jpg
Muhammadu Buhari in 2015
15th President of Nigeria
Assumed office
29 May 2015
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
Preceded by Goodluck Jonathan
Federal Minister of Petroleum Resources
Assumed office
11 November 2015
Preceded by Diezani Allison-Madueke
7th Head of State of Nigeria
In office
31 December 1983 – 27 August 1985
Vice President Tunde Idiagbon as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters
Preceded by Shehu Shagari
Succeeded by Ibrahim Babangida
Federal Commissioner of Petroleum and Natural Resources
In office
March 1976 – June 1978
Governor of Borno State
In office
3 February 1976 – 15 March 1976
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Mustapha Amin
Governor of the Northeastern State
In office
1 August 1975 – 3 February 1976
Preceded by Musa Usman
Succeeded by Position abolished
Personal details
Born (1942-12-17) 17 December 1942 (age 74)
Daura, Northern Region, British Nigeria
(now Daura, Katsina State, Nigeria)
Nationality Nigerian
Political party All Progressives Congress
Spouse(s)
  • Safinatu Yusuf (m. 1971; div. 1988)
  • Aisha Halilu (m. 1989)
Children
Alma mater Nigerian Military Training College
Mons Officer Cadet School
U.S. Army War College
Religion Islam
Website www.mbuhari.ng
Military service
Nickname(s) Baba go slow
Service/branch Flag of the Nigerian Army Headquarters.svg Nigerian Army
Years of service 1961–1985
Rank Major general

Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation's head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d'état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a "converted democrat".

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Adamu and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.

He attended primary school in Daura and Mai'adua before proceeding to Katsina Model School in 1953, and to Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina) from 1956 to 1961.


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