{"id":8181,"date":"2025-07-13T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:19:28","slug":"nigerias-former-president-late-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2025\/07\/13\/nigerias-former-president-late-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Former President, Late Muhammadu Buhari, is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has passed away at the age of 82 years in a London clinic, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement shared by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on his personal X account on Sunday, July 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIRRAJIUUN. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His former aide, Bashir Ahmad, had recently confirmed that the former president was receiving medical attention, but dismissed widespread claims suggesting he was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammadu Buhari was a retired Nigerian Army General. He joined the army in 1961 and held several key command and staff positions throughout his military career.<\/p>\n<p>Late Buhari was the military Head of State from December 31, 1983 until August 1985 when he was deposed by another coup.<\/p>\n<p>After Nigeria\u2019s return to democracy in 1999, he  contested the presidential election four times (2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015) but only won in 2015 in a contest with the then sitting President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has passed away at the age of 82 years in a London clinic, United Kingdom. This was disclosed in a statement shared by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on his personal X account on Sunday, July 13, 2025. \u201cINNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIRRAJIUUN. The family of the former president has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}