Muhammadu Buhari

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Muhammadu Buhari (2015)

Muhammadu Buhari (born December 17, 1942 in Daura ) is a former general of the Nigerian armed forces and Nigerian politician. After a military coup, he was head of state in his home country from 1983 to 1985. He has been President of Nigeria since May 2015 .

Life

Buhari was born into a Muslim family in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina . He was his mother's 13th child. His father came from the Fulani people , his mother from the Kanuri people .

After attending primary and secondary schools in Daura and Kaduna , he joined the Nigerian armed forces in 1962 , was military governor of the state of Northeast 1974–1975, held various ministerial posts in the military government of Olusegun Obasanjo , and overthrew the democratically elected President of the Second Republic , Shehu Shagari , In a military coup at the end of 1983 and pursued a strongly nationalist policy.

He tried to get the onset of the economic crisis under Shagari, which was connected to the drop in oil prices, without external interference from the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) under control. To fight corruption, he launched a “War Against Indiscipline” campaign, which made him notorious but was economically unsuccessful. After disputes within the military, he was overthrown by General Ibrahim Babangida in a palace coup in 1985 and imprisoned until 1988. In the same year he separated from his wife and married Aisha Halilu. He once said about his wife's position in marriage: "It belongs in my kitchen, living room and the other room".

Appointed by military dictator Sani Abacha as chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund , which was to carry out development projects from oil revenues, Buhari returned to politics in the IV Republic in 1999 and has since stood as a candidate for the All Nigeria People's in the 1999, 2003 and 2007 presidential elections Party (ANPP). In 2003 he received 32.19% of the vote against Olusegun Obasanjo , who was elected in 1999, in widely controversial elections and appealed against the election . In December 2006, Buhari was nominated as a candidate for the presidential election in April 2007 by more than 6,000 ANPP delegates . Previously, all internal party competitors had given up. Buhari's running mate was Edwin Ume-Ezeoke .

Buhari (r.) Taking office from his predecessor Jonathan (l.) (2015)

In March 2010 he left the ANPP, which he co-founded. He also received almost a third of the vote in the 2011 presidential election , but was defeated by incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan . In the presidential election in March 2015 , he faced Jonathan again and won as a candidate for the All Progressives Congress party . He was supported by his running mate Yemi Osinbajo . On May 29, 2015, Buhari and Osinbajo were sworn in as President and Vice President respectively.

After a total of 5 months of absence and a three-month hospital stay in London , Buhari returned to Nigeria at the end of August 2017. His long absence had fueled rumors in Nigeria that he had died or even been replaced by a Sudanese doppelganger.

On February 23, 2019, he ran again in the presidential election , which he won with 56% of the vote in the first ballot. He was inducted into his second term on May 29, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Muhammadu Buhari  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exclusive Interview With GMB - Buhari speaks to The Sun Newspaper. Retrieved March 31, 2015 (excerpts from an interview with the Nigerian newspaper The Sun ).
  2. ↑ Christian Putsch: These are the facts about population growth in Africa. Die Welt , August 9, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Major General Muhammadu Buhari . Africa Confidential, accessed July 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Presidential election in Nigeria: challenger Buhari clearly triumphs. In: Spiegel Online from April 1, 2015 (accessed April 1, 2015).
  5. ↑ Nigeria's President Buhari introduced into office. Deutsche Welle , May 29, 2015, accessed on May 29, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Martina Schwikowski: Nigeria: President Buhari returns. In: Deutsche Welle . August 21, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ "'It's the real me': Nigerian president denies dying and being replaced by clone" The Guardian of December 3, 2018
  8. ^ Spiegel Online : Muhammadu Buhari remains president , February 27, 2019.
  9. ↑ Nigeria: presidential inauguration as Buhar starts second term. africanews.com, May 29, 2019, accessed May 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Buhari, Muhammadu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian President (1983–1985; since 2015)
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Daura