*His Politics
*The Jibril Of Sudan Clone Controversy
*Tinubu Orders Flags Flown At Half-staff
By Felix Durumbah
President Bola Tinubu has directed Vice President Kashim Shettima to travel to London to convey the remains of immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari back to Nigeria.
State House, Abuja, formally announced Buhari’s passing away today.
He reportedly died in London, today too, about 4.30 pm, following prolonged illness.
President Tinubu is said to have expressed his deep condolences to the widow of the deceased and immediate past First Lady, Aisha Buhari.
Buhari as a serving soldier, overthrew Nigeria’s Second Republic government of President Shehu Shagari on December 31,1983 and proceeded to rule the country with an iron fist for one year and 236 days, before his regime was equally overthrown by his Army chief, General Ibrahim Babamasi Babangida (fondly called IBB) who retired him from the armed forces and placed him under house arrest till 1988.
With the advent of the current Fourth Republic in 1999, Buhari threw his hat in the political ring by running for President in the 2003 electoral cycle on the platform of the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), but was defeated by incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo by over 11million votes.
Again and again, he ran, in 2007 and 2011, and lost to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidates/presidents, Umar Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, respectively.
By 2013, he began a process, alongside former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, of forging an alliance to unseat President Jonathan in the 2015 elections, where the latter was seeking re-election.
Buhari, flying the banner of All Progressives Congress (APC), succeeded in unseating Jonathan –marking a historic first in Nigeria’s political journey, that a sitting President lost an election to the opposition.
On May 29, 2015, Buhari was inaugurated as President.
He sought re-election in 2019 and succeeded in the bid, notably trouncing PDP’s Atiku Abubakar in the process.
Buhari’s two terms in office elevated him to Nigeria’s elite leadership league hitherto occupied by only ex-President Obasanjo: that of those who had governed as both military Heads of State and re-elected civilian President.
Much as his administration tried to fight insecurity, the monster which was initially localized to Nigeria’s North-East, fanned out nationwide rapidly,sparking the rise of indigenous groups which sought to protect their ancestral lands from armed killer herdsmen, dubbed bandits by the Federal Government but termed terrorists by the indigenous groups and their leaders.
One such group, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) led by Britain-based Nnamdi Kanu (now in detention in Nigeria), had a long running battle with the Buhari presidency.
At a stage after Buhari’s three-month medical leave in 2017 in the UK, Kanu claimed that Buhari did not survive the illness, alleging further that his remains had been interred “in a shallow grave” in Saudi Arabia.
He mentioned the names of few persons at the alleged graveside during the burial, adding that a clone, whom he named as Jibril of Sudan, was the one who returned from the UK hospital to govern Nigeria as if it was President Buhari.
The alleged evidences he presented in his radio and social media platforms sparked a huge controversy locally and internationally and even triggered a response,a denial, from the Nigerian presidency.
In late 2018, Buhari, who was in Poland attending a United Nations (UN) climate change conference, was asked about the rumours during a meeting with Nigerians in the country.
He denied the claims, insisting that he is the real one in flesh and blood.
President Tinubu has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff as a mark of respect for the departed leader.
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