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	Muhammadu Buhari - Definition, explanation
		Muhammadu Buhari (born December 17, 1942) was a military ruler of Nigeria (1983 - 1985) and an unsuccessful candidate for president in 2003.
		Buhari and Chief of staff General Tunde Idiagbon were selected to lead the country by middle and high ranking military officers after a successful military coup d'etat that overthrew civilian President Shehu Shagari on December 31, 1983.
		Buhari was himself overthrown in a coup by General Ibrahim Babangida on August 27, 1985.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/mu/muhammadu_buhari.php (338 words)

	Muhammadu Buhari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muhammadu Buhari (born December 17, 1942) was a military ruler of Nigeria (December 31st, 1983 - August 27th, 1985) and an unsuccessful candidate for president in the May 29th, 2003 Presidential Elections.
		Buhari and Chief of staff General Tunde Idiagbon were selected to lead the country by middle and high ranking military officers after a successful military coup d'etat that overthrew civilian President Shehu Shagari on December 31, 1983.
		Buhari was himself overthrown in a coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida on August 27, 1985 and other members of the ruling Supreme Military Council (SMC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari (311 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: All Nigeria People's Party
		Its candidate at the presidential elections of 19 april 2003, Muhammadu Buhari won 32.2 % of the vote.
		Muhammadu Buhari Muhammadu Buhari (born December 17, 1942) was a military ruler of Nigeria (December 31st, 1983 - August 27th, 1985) and an unsuccessful candidate for president in the May 29th, 2003 Presidential Elections.
		The ANPP's plan was made on Thursday after it resolved differences with its presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari on what steps to take on the outcome of the April 21 election, the newspapers reported.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/All-Nigeria-People%27s-Party (624 words)

	Muhammadu Buhari's Campaign Needs Our Help 12/20/06
		Muhammadu Buhari is a rare player in Nigeria’s polity for the simple fact that not only is he a man of vision with a mission, who puts the interest of the nation above that of self, but he also has the experience, honesty and an abundance of integrity.
		In the coming weeks and months, Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign is bound to kick into high gear.
		It shall serve as the unofficial grassroots HQ for the dissemination of the Buhari message in the Diaspora; it shall also serve as the main fundraising conduit for the campaign outside the shores of Nigeria.
	www.buhari.org /Muhammadu_Buhari_s_Campaign_Needs_Our_Help_12_20_06.html (414 words)

	Muhammadu Buhari: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Muhammadu Buhari (born December 17, 1942) was a military ruler of Nigeria (Nigeria: A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country) (1983 - 1985) and an unsuccessful candidate for president in 2003.
		Buhari and Chief of staff General Tunde Idiagbon (Tunde Idiagbon: tunde idiagbon (born in 1944) was a nigerian soldier and a one-time member of a military...
		Buhari was himself overthrown in a coup by General Ibrahim Babangida (Ibrahim Babangida: more facts about this subject) on August 27, 1985.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/muhammadu_buhari (351 words)

	News -- At Arewa London Forum, Buhari berates Obasanjo's govt
		Buhari, according to a source at the meeting, said it was regrettable that a big concern like the Nigeria Airways has had to close down and parastatals providing essential services such as NEPA and NITEL are not effective.
		Buhari, who is embroiled in a dogged legal tussle challenging the victory of President Obasanjo in the April 2003 presidential election, blasted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for masterminding a fraudulent election.
		Buhari, who revealed that except when he was overseas, he was physically present at all the court hearings on the case, is hoping that the "Supreme Court will take into account all the evidence" in reaching an appropriate verdict.
	odili.net /news/source/2005/jan/16/2.html (558 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The person of General Muhammadu Buhari is not new in Nigeria, infact it is synonymous with the invention and re-invention of the Nigerian nation, but what is news is Buhari's venture into Nigerian partisan Politics.
		The good will that greeted the Buhari's venturing into politics is enough a reason to proof this point vis-as-vis the frustration eminent from the total collapse of leadership qualities in the current political dispensation.
		Buhari's leadership qualities in the past, lends support to the hypothesis that it is the lacking attributes of discipline and accountability in our leaders that made them failed statemen whose catch word is corruption and it is the same corruption that had polluted and corroded our capabilities and abilities alike.
	www.buhari2003.org /Mamza_ChildOf_Necessity.htm (1087 words)

	News -- Buhari gives conditions for going to court
		Buhari who insisted on his earlier position that the results of the presidential elections were unacceptable to him and his party, told supporters in Katsina that election did not take place in 15 states.
		Buhari and his entourage had been going to the various local government branches of the ANPP in the state to mobilise supporters for the party in Saturday's election.
		Buhari's campaign organisation has also described the readiness of the PDP to set aside results of April 19 elections in six states as an admission of guilt.
	odili.net /news/source/2003/may/1/200.html (1317 words)

	No. 861: Corruption and Debt Reduction
		The Supreme Court ruled emphatically on Friday, July 1 that Obasanjo's re-election in 2003 was valid despite claims by the appellant, Muhammadu Buhari, that the election was marred by irregularities and bare-faced malpractices.
		Right from 2003, the court of public opinion backed Buhari's claims that the election laws were weighted in favour of the incumbent (Obasanjo) and that Buhari, as challenger, lost simply because neither he nor his party could match the PDP foot soldiers who swayed many voters with financial and other incentives.
		For example, Buhari may have won in the court of public opinion but the judges in that court are powerless because they can't actually swear him in; in fact, the judges in the court of public opinion can't provide Buhari with the official keys which he needs to access the Aso Rock mansion.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/861.html (1155 words)

	Buhari asks govt to expose owners of $170b foreign accounts - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Buhari, who spoke in an interview with The Guardian in Lagos at the weekend, said for this reason, the chances of Nigeria getting debt relief were rather slim.
		Buhari is still in court challenging the victory of President Obasanjo in the 2003 elections.
		Buhari, who was in Lagos to attend the June 12 rally, saluted the courage of Tinubu for standing up to oppression and dictatorship.
	nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates?a=3100&z=5 (512 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article (Muhammadu Buhari is no saint: A response to Tonye)
		In fact Buhari's aide-de-camp, who happened to be the son of the Emir, went to the airport to clear those suitcases himself.
		Buhari also came up with another draconian decree that every woman who planned to go to pilgrimage to Mecca must be accompanied by a male, and that no child under the age of 16, would under any circumstance, be allowed to go to Mecca for a pilgrimage.
		Buhari had no respect for the extensive ethnic and religious diversity of our country and he showed it by the pattern of his appointments while in office (both he and Idiagbon were Muslims and northerners).
	nigeriaworld.com /letters/2002/may/011.html (1047 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Buhari is ruining the ANPP
		The current political miscalculation of General Muhammadu Buhari, the former military Head of State (1983-85) who came into partisan politics and sought the presidency on the two prong policy of one north and one religion tended to have posed a dilemma for the true believer in one "north", the AREWA as part of Nigeria.
		General Buhari through his Campaign Organization coordinated by Alhaji Sule Hamma and Alhaji Wada Nas who both jointly also coordinated the ill-fated Abacha self-succession plan in the past makes many unfounded and unsubstantiated allegations of irregularities that are drawn from the reports of the international observers.
		The defeat of Buhari should have been foreseen within the northern leadership from the way he ran his campaign in the country that he was not a match for Chief Obasanjo.
	nigeriaworld.com /feature/publication/omoruyi/051503.html (5456 words)

	A victory of sorts
		Muhammadu Buhari, who was the main challenger to the incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo in the presidential election held on April 19, was himself responsible for the overthrow of a civilian government in 1983.
		Buhari, a retired General, had then seized power from Shehu Shagari, the civilian President, alleging that the elections conducted by the civilian administration were not free and fair.
		Buhari was an authoritarian ruler who tried to instil discipline in the Nigerian people.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl2010/stories/20030523000306000.htm (1669 words)

	A REVIEW OF ADAMU KYAKU USMANS MUHAMMADU BUHARI THE SPIRIT OF A MAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a book about General Muhammadu Buhari, his personality, his personal philosophy, his vision and his unique and unprecedented record of selfless and sincere service to the nation.
		Young Muhammadu as he then was, was a truant in primary school but by the time he moved to middle school in Katsina he became a more serious student.
		Alhaji Ahmadu Raba, the Sardauna of Sokoto, was a prince and grandson of Sultan Muhammadu Bello.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /articles/a_review_of_adamu_kyaku_usmans_m.htm (6694 words)

	Amana Online
		My point is that General Muhammadu Buhari understands the difference between a military and a democratic government with its attendant checks and balances and unlike those leaders that are supposedly thinking to join the political arena, General Buhari can be trusted to keep his words.
		In this General Buhari has become the embodiment per excellence of the idea and ideals of a free and fair election, and while others shamelessly hold on to illegality, General Buhari is holding on our behalf the expression and practice of legitimate representation.
		General Buhari’s curtailing of the rights of Muslims to perform a fundamental religious obligation was a feat no past leader, military or civilian had dared to conceive, hence the action was certainly unwelcome by all Muslims and it brought General Buhari’s government at logger head with our clerics.
	www.amanaonline.com /Articles/art_742.htm (2796 words)

	Sabella O Abidde: Buhariâs Principled Tenacity: A Rejoinder and Further Comments
		At the time General Buhari and his lieutenants came to power (1983-1985), Nigeria was already swimming in a cesspool of economic and social corruption, laziness, dirtiness and political decadence.
		General Mohammadu Buhari has recently become a thorn in the flesh of President Obasanjo and the PDP and on the side of all those who connived to steal the recent elections.
		Whatever the final outcome of the Buhariâs case, I will forever doff my hat and bow my head in recognition of his tenacity, his democratic ideals, and his zeal to see that justice is done for every Nigerian who voted during the last elections.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com /Articles/Abidde/2004/07/buharis-principled-tenacity-rejoinder.html (918 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| 'Honest' general wanted to rule Nigeria
		Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari was, as expected, the main challenger to the re-election of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
		Mr Buhari's running mate was former Senate President Chuba Okadigbo, an ethnic Igbo from the south-east, a region which feels it has been unfairly excluded from power since independence.
		When Mr Obasanjo was a military ruler in the 1970s, Mr Buhari held the key post of minister of petroleum affairs but there is now little love lost between the former colleagues.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2639165.stm (759 words)

	General Buhari and Democracy
		Buhari in the past before he became the candidate of the ANPP was not a believer.
		BUHARI SPEAKING TO THE WORLD WAS SILENT ON General Buhari was asked a question at a World Press Conference that he organized to tell the world and the Nigerian people the cornerstone of his policy and in fact his belief on January 5, 1984, few days after taking power.
		It is obvious to them and to Nigerians that General Muhammadu Buhari made negative contribution to democratic struggles before he declared his intention to contest the highest office in the land.
	www.dawodu.com /omoruyi12.htm (2021 words)

	The Sun News On-line \| national news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To achieve this feat, the young man with eyes fixed on great things to be done for greater benefit of his society, almost single-handedly brought General Muhammadu Buhari to Kano and drove through the major streets of the city in a convoy of over 200 vehicles.
		And immediately Buhari, widely regarded as a moral authority, accepted to run for the presidential seat of Nigeria, the fortunes of the hitherto prostrate ANPP jerked up to an all time high.
		We all believe one thing, that General Buhari is a disciplined leader and we came to the conclusion that the he is a kind of a leader we have to support to form a corrupt free government for the benefit and interest of Nigeria; so the youths teamed up and staunchly supported him.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/news/national/2005/sep/29/national-29-09-2005-004.htm (687 words)

	Buhari Politicians And History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		General Muhammadu Buhari is fully aware of the speech he made sometime in 1982 calling on Nigerian soldiers to start reading the Nigerian constitution for a future role they (the soldiers) might be called upon to perform.
		If General Muhammadu Buhari may want to debunk the idea that his call on soldiers to start reading the Nigerian Constitution represented a call to overthrow the democratic government, I will further wish to humbly submit that moves made by General Buhari within the military between 1982 and 1983 clearly confirmed this interpretation.
		The important passenger was Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, the General Officer commanding the 3rd infantry Division of the Nigerian Army, Jos.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /barticles/buhari_politicians_and_history.htm (2103 words)

	Muhammadu Buhari, a Former Military Dictator in Nigeria, and Candidate for President of Nigeria in 2003, Outlines His ...
		Muhammadu Buhari served in the Nigerian Armed Forces in the 1980s.
		As the military "Head of State," Buhari imposed a stiff military regime of "discipline" which required everyone to be obedient to state commands.
		This address is part of Buhari's campaign for a term of the presidency of Nigeria that begins in 2003.
	www.waado.org /NigerDelta/Essays/Politics/Buhari.html (3910 words)

	Nasarawa State Official Website
		He cited section 135 (1) of the Electoral Act, 2000, which stated that "an election shall not be invalidated by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Act if it appears that the election was conducted substantially in accordance with the principles of the Act".
		The ANPP petitioner in his petition stated that the April 19, 2003 presidential election "was conducted in substantial negation of the fundamental principles of the Electoral Act, which are the substance of democracy, neutrality in the conduct of elections, fairness and allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria".
		It is reassuring that General Buhari has accepted the decision of the apex court, though he added that "we do not agree with it", terming it political.
	www.nasarawastate.org /newsday/news/nasarawa/10712184849.html (1129 words)

	Former ruler eyes Nigerian presidency -DAWN - International; April 13, 2003
		Eighteen years after the former military ruler lost power in a palace coup, Buhari is seeking the country’s top job again, but is having difficulty shaking off the label of being a candidate of the Islamic north.
		Buhari, candidate of Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, the All-Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) is widely seen as the biggest poll challenger to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
		Buhari is the main candidate from the largely Muslim north which dominated power in Nigeria for nearly four decades after independence from Britain in 1960.
	www.dawn.com /2003/04/13/int15.htm (524 words)

	NIGERIAN TRIBUNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		FOLLOWING the renewed bond of friendship betwen former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida and former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidency is said to be jittery about the implication of such bond for the 2007 polls.
		This development and fear expressed by presidency is said to be borne out of the collective attempts being made by the North together with the North Central zone to have the presidency zoned to it come 2007, and several fora had already been held on the issue.
		It will be recalled that at a Northern Forum, House of Representatives inauguration which Buhari attended but which Babangida did not, a key northern leader had said that northern leaders seeking highest office in the land had to settle their differences or prepared to be booted.
	www.tribune.com.ng /210106/news01.htm (459 words)

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