Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Bouhary dies

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Muhammadu Bouhary, who was president of Nigeria for eight years after serving first as head of the military state, died at the age of 82.

BushWho occupied two periods as President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, he died in London on Sunday afternoon after “a long illness”, according to a spokesman, President Paula Tenobo.

The death of Bohari is the end of a public profession that included the disappearance of the army as well as in democratic policy.

He ascended to the rank of the general before the seizure of power in the 1983 coup, one of the series of army officers who disrupted the emerging democracy in Nigeria after independence from Britain in 1960. Bouhary himself was deposed in 1985 by another general, just 20 months from Junita who seized power.

Bouhaari then sought to lead Nigeria through the polling fund after a more populated nation in Africa returned in 1999. He was a presidential candidate in 2003, 2007 and 2011, and lost each time for its competitors in the Democratic Party of the current people.

Bouhary was accused of inciting violence in the wake of his 2011 defeat when hundreds of people were killed in sectarian attacks. The report of the post -election committee decided that the comments of Bouhaari before the elections may have contributed to the violence of its supporters. Bouhaari has always denied the accusations.

After he was invented by a “reformer democratic”, Bouhary Finally, she won the desired presidency In 2015, after forming an alliance with Tinubu to create an alliance of all progressive at the conference to take over PDP.

The coalition allowed it to expand its attractiveness beyond the base of the large authority in the northern provinces to southern Nigeria.

Bouhary Jodlock Jonathan defeated the current, after he was on a platform for combating corruption and pledged to defeat the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, which gained global attention to the kidnapping of 276 Christian female students in the northeast of the country in the previous year.

The amazing victory is the first time that the opposition leader defeated the job occupant in the country’s history. It was a bishop Re -elected In 2019.

A strict Muslim is known for his lifestyle asceticism and his expectation of discipline, which represented his period of work as a military leader, whose statements began his state as a democratic chief slowly. It took six months to appoint his first cabinet, and earned him the title of “Slow Papa Go” in reference to traffic problems in the country.

Bouhaari did not help decrease crude oil. The growth and the living governorates that he moved during his time in office collapsed, with two periods in eight years in office.

He returned to some of the automatic economic policies that he preferred himself and other generals in the 1980s, such as closing the borders of land with neighboring countries in an attempt to reduce smuggling.

Despite some early successes against Boko Haram, Bouhary Ashraf Ashraf Ashraf Ashraf Ashraf Ashraf.

Violence has spread from the northeast stronghold of the Islamic Group to almost every corner of the country, where multiple groups participate in activities such as kidnapping of ransom and attacks on farmers as well as separatist rebellion in the southeast.

The tyranny line for the military days in Bouhari raised her head when X is banned In 2021.

He also accused his government of compensation for civil rights. Human rights groups said at least 10 people were killed By the security forces that shot the demonstrators during the anti -police brutal protests in Lagos in October 2020.

With long talismans in London received treatment for unpopular diseases, his time was often characterized by rumors of bad health. In 2018, Bouhaari was forced to deny speculation that he died and was replaced by the “Jobril” body of Sudan.

Bouhaari said he heard that he was “cloning”, but he confirmed “he (is a real) for me, I assure you.”