Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari died in London at the age of 82 on Sunday, following what the office of current President Bola Tinubu described as a “prolonged illness.”
Buhari first rose to power by overthrowing President Shehu Shagari in a military coup in December 1983. Buhari was a major general and chief of staff for the Nigerian army at the time.
Shagari had taken office as the first civilian leader of a system modeled on the U.S. Constitution, including a bicameral legislature and a dash of federalism for Nigeria’s 19 states. The system was supposed to insulate Nigeria from military rule. It worked for roughly four years.
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