ON OUR ALL ABOUT CELEBRITIES SECTION: ALL ABOUT PRESIDENT BUHARI

     

   Muhammadu Buhari the present President of the Federal republic of Nigeria, was born on the 17th of December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Alhaji Hardo Adamu and Hajiya Zulhatu (nee Musa) his mother. He is the twenty-third child of his Parents. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.  His paternal grandfather was a typical Fulani who lived the nomadic life but later settled for a life of farming in Daura, Katsina State. His mother later died on the 14th of December, 1988, a few days to his birthday. Buhari, who had just been released from prison, got to Daura a few hours after the burial of his mother. He was not fortunate enough to witness her being interred. Please note that Buhari’s mother was not Fulani but Hausa (Habe) and she was already a widow with seven children when she married Buhari’s father who was the Fulani chief of the Dumurkol Village, near Daura.

      Buhari attended primary school in Daura and Mai'adua before proceeding to Katsina Model School in 1953, and then to Katsina Provincial Secondary School which is now known as Government College Kastina, from 1956 to 1961.
In becoming a soldier, he attended the following institutions:
=>Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC), 1962
=>Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, United Kingdom (1962-1963). Generals Sani Abacha and Obasanjo also attended this academy). In Aldershot, Buhari was described as ‘an only pebble in the beach, a star in his calm and calculating disposition.’
=>Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington, Tamil Nadu, India (1973), Obasanjo also attended this college 

           He rose steadily through the ranks:

• -Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 1963
• -Platoon Commander, United Nations Peacekeeping Force, Congo, early 1960s.
• -Platoon Commander, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Abeokuta, Ogun State, 1963.
• -Mechanical Transport Officer, Lagos Garrison, 1964 – 1965.
• -Transport Company Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade 1965 – 1966.
• -Battalion Adjutant / Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade/Battalion 1966 – 1967 (during the Nigerian Civil War).
• -Appointed Brigade Major, 2 Sector, 1st Infantry Division, April -July 1967.
• Brigade Major, 3rd Infantry Brigade, August 1967 – October 1968;
• Acting Commander, 4th Sector, 1st Division November 1968 – February 1970;
• Commander, 31st Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, February 1970 – June 1971;
• Assistant Adjutant-General, 1st Infantry Division Hqrs., July 1971 – Dec. 1972;
• Colonel, General Staff, 3rd Infantry Div. Hqrs. Jan. 1974 – Sept. 1974.
• Acting Director, Supply and Transport, Nigeria Army Corps of Supply and Transport, September 1974 – July 1975;
• Military Governor, North Eastern State of Nigeria, August 1975 – March 1976;
  

• Federal Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, March 1976 to June 1978;
• Chairman, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, June 1978 – July 1978;
• Military Secretary, Army Headquarters July 1978 – June 1979;
• Member Supreme Military Council, March 1976 – June 1979;
• General Officer Commanding, 4th Infantry Division, Aug. 1980 – Jan. 1981;
• General Officer Commanding, 2nd Mechanised Infantry Division, Jan. 1981 – October 1981;
• General Officer Commanding 3rd Armed Division Nigerian Army, October 1981 – December 1983.
• I n 1983, Major-General Buhari and Major-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. In 1985, Buhari was himself overthrown in a coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida on August 27th, and other members of the ruling Supreme Military Council (SMC) ostensibly, because he insisted on investigating allegations of fraudulent award of contracts in the Ministry of Defence.
  Between 1995 and 1998, Buhari served as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), a body created by the government of General Sani Abacha, and funded from the revenue generated by the increase in price of petroleum products, to pursue developmental projects around the country.
  Buhari contested the Presidential election as the candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party in 2003 and lost to former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
  
  
  
  Again, he contested under the ANPP banner in 2007 against Late Umaru Musa Yar’adua of the PDP and lost.
  In March 2010, Buhari left the ANPP for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), a party that he had helped to found.
  Buhari was the CPC Presidential candidate in the 16 April 2011 general election, in which he lost to incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
  Despite He had contested three times in a row and lost, he did not loose hope.
  
  
  
  
  
  
   Again he contested in the 2015 Presidential election which he won and is now the President and Grand Commander in Chief of Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.