How ex- Nigerian President Buhari Was Buried In His Country- home, Daura, Katsina State
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Guinea Bissau counterpart, President Umaru Sissoko Mbalo were among those who witnessed the burial of former President Muhammadu Buhari in his country home, Daura, in Katsina State on Tuesday evening.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Guinea Bissau counterpart, President Umaru Sissoko Mbalo were among those who witnessed the burial of former President Muhammadu Buhari in his country home, Daura, in Katsina State on Tuesday evening.
This was even as the Nigeria’s northern town witnessed an unusual crowd as both the poor and the mighty, including top politicians, military officers and members of foreign delegations paid homage to Buhari, whose remains were interred according to Muslim rites, two days after his death in a London hospital at 82.
Full military honours were accorded the former President and Commander- in - Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. These included a 21-gun salute, a farewell march and a graveside oration read by Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Christopher Musa during the state funeral, which was televised live as Nigerians observed a public holiday and a seven-day National mourning, ordered by the Federal Government led by Buhari’s successor, President Tinubu.
Tinubu, who was also, the chief mourner, travelled from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, to receive Buhari’s corpse, which was flown from London earlier in the day to the Umaru Musa Ya’ardua Airport, Katsina, the state capital.
The casket bearing the Buhari's body was draped in Nigerian flag of green-white-green colours and brought in a Nigerian Air Force Jet. This was followed by a military farewell parade for the late army general, before it was transferred into an ambulance, accompanied by a motorcade on a one-hour drive to Daura for the Islamic burial.
Among those in the motorcade included President Tinubu, former First Lady Aisha Buhari, who accompanied her husband’s body from London to Katsina, surrounded by family members and current First Lady Oluremi Tinubu.
They also serving and former ministers and political leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, serving and former military officials, as well as traditional and religious leaders. as well as an official delegation from neighbouring Niger Republic, to which Buhari traced his ancestry.
In Daura, the body was moved to the town’s prayer ground for Muslim prayers before it was lowered to Mother Earth at exactly 5.50 pm Nigerian time in the late president’s modest compound.
Other dignitaries included Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, opposition leader Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Buhari’s former deputy Yemi Osinbajo and current vice President Kashim Shettima, who led the government delegation to London to bring the corpse home.
Full military honours were accorded the former President and Commander- in - Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. These included a 21-gun salute, a farewell march and a graveside oration read by Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Christopher Musa during the state funeral, which was televised live as Nigerians observed a public holiday and a seven-day National mourning, ordered by the Federal Government led by Buhari’s successor, President Tinubu.
Tinubu, who was also, the chief mourner, travelled from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, to receive Buhari’s corpse, which was flown from London earlier in the day to the Umaru Musa Ya’ardua Airport, Katsina, the state capital.
The casket bearing the Buhari's body was draped in Nigerian flag of green-white-green colours and brought in a Nigerian Air Force Jet. This was followed by a military farewell parade for the late army general, before it was transferred into an ambulance, accompanied by a motorcade on a one-hour drive to Daura for the Islamic burial.
Among those in the motorcade included President Tinubu, former First Lady Aisha Buhari, who accompanied her husband’s body from London to Katsina, surrounded by family members and current First Lady Oluremi Tinubu.
They also serving and former ministers and political leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, serving and former military officials, as well as traditional and religious leaders. as well as an official delegation from neighbouring Niger Republic, to which Buhari traced his ancestry.
In Daura, the body was moved to the town’s prayer ground for Muslim prayers before it was lowered to Mother Earth at exactly 5.50 pm Nigerian time in the late president’s modest compound.
Other dignitaries included Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, opposition leader Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Buhari’s former deputy Yemi Osinbajo and current vice President Kashim Shettima, who led the government delegation to London to bring the corpse home.
Gen. Buhari first ruled Nigeria for 20 months from January 1984 to August 1985, as a military Head of State following the 31 December 1983 coup against the elected government of President Shehu Shagari. He was later overthrown in another military coup by General Ibrahim Babangida on August 27, 1985, before he was elected President in 2015, following Nigeria’s return to civilian rule in 1999 after long spells of military rule.
Buhari was re-elected in 2019 and served until 2023, when he handed over to incumbent President Tinubu, as the first opposition leader in Nigeria, to defeat an incumbent in power. He and Tinubu belong to the same ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Buhari, who fought the Nigeria - Biafran civil war between 1967 and 1970 also served as a military governor. During his reign as president between 2019 and 2023, however, he failed to tame corruption among officials in his government or his close associates, with the cankerworm eating much deeper into the national fabric during his eight-year tenure.
In his tribute to his late colleague, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, also, a former Nigerian military head of State (1998-1999), described Buhari as “a gentle man, very quiet, and exceptionally honest.”
According to Abdulsalami, “When he came in as a democratically elected President, he tried his best to fight corruption. "Unfortunately, (some officials), who worked with him were found wanting. …with the passing away of Gen. Buhari, politics in Nigeria will certainly change, I hope for the better."
Buhari was re-elected in 2019 and served until 2023, when he handed over to incumbent President Tinubu, as the first opposition leader in Nigeria, to defeat an incumbent in power. He and Tinubu belong to the same ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Buhari, who fought the Nigeria - Biafran civil war between 1967 and 1970 also served as a military governor. During his reign as president between 2019 and 2023, however, he failed to tame corruption among officials in his government or his close associates, with the cankerworm eating much deeper into the national fabric during his eight-year tenure.
In his tribute to his late colleague, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, also, a former Nigerian military head of State (1998-1999), described Buhari as “a gentle man, very quiet, and exceptionally honest.”
According to Abdulsalami, “When he came in as a democratically elected President, he tried his best to fight corruption. "Unfortunately, (some officials), who worked with him were found wanting. …with the passing away of Gen. Buhari, politics in Nigeria will certainly change, I hope for the better."
Gen. Abubakar, was himself recently discharged from the same London Clinic where Buhari died.
Buhari ran election campaigns on promises to improve national security, the economy, and fight corruption, but his administration was noted for failing to provide solutions to these endemic problems.
Buhari ran election campaigns on promises to improve national security, the economy, and fight corruption, but his administration was noted for failing to provide solutions to these endemic problems.
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