FORMER Nigerian President, Mr Muhammadu Buhari, is dead. He died on Saturday, according to an X post by his former aide, Mr Bashir Ahmad.

“The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, this afternoon in a clinic in London. May Allah accept him in Aljannatul Firdaus, Amin,” he posted, citing a statement signed by his late President’s media aide, Mr Garba Shehu.

“May Allah accept him in Aljannatul Firdaus, Amin,” he added.

President Buhari was a Nigerian head of state between 1983 and 1985. He was a2so the president between 2015 and 2023. He was 82 years.

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In 1971, he married his first wife, Safinatu (née Yusuf). The marriage produced five children – four girls and one boy. In 1988, Buhari and his first wife Safinatu divorced. On 14 January 2006, Safinatu died from daibetes. In November 2012, Buhari’s first daughter, Zulaihat Junaid died from sickle cell, two days after having a baby at a hospital in Kaduna.^[237]

In December 1989, Buhari married his second and current wife, Aisha. They had five children together – a boy and four girls: Aisha, Halima, Yusuf, Zahra and Amina.

Before becoming president in 2015, Mr Buhari declared his assets, including $150,000 cash, five homes, two mud houses, farms, an orchard, a ranch of 270 head of cattle, 25 sheep, five horses, a variety of birds, shares in three firms, two undeveloped plots of land, and two cars bought from his savings.