Today is President Muhammadu Buhari’s 73rd birthday. Ever since he assumed office on May 29, President Buhari has been up and about working hard to deliver the change promised to Nigerians.
After a long campaign against the Peoples Democratic Party and an incumbent president, Buhari came out victorious in an election that the history books would describe as the game changer.
Buhari who has publicly described himself as a ‘converted democrat,’ can almost be described as the hope of Nigerian people.
Born on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Adamu and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.
He attended primary school in Daura and Mai’adua before proceeding to Katsina Model School in 1953, and to Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina) from 1956 to 1961.
He joined the Nigerian Army by enrolling in the Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC) in 1961. F rom 1962 to 1963, Buhari underwent officer cadet training at Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot in England.
He married his first wife, Safinatu (née Yusuf) Buhari in 1971, they had five children together, four girls and one boy. In 1988, they were divorced.
He later married his second and current wife Aisha Buhari (née Halilu) in 1989. They also have five children together, a boy and four girls. They are Aisha, Halima, Yusuf, Zarah and Amina.
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