The family of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, former President of Nigeria, who died Friday will be buried tomorrow in Sokoto.
His grandson, Nuradeen Mahe, told newsmen in Sokoto that the late President would be flown from Abuja to Sokoto for burial on Saturday, in accordance with Islamic rites.
Shagari, who was 93, died at 6: 40 P.M at the National Hospital in Abuja.
Mahe said he was flown to Abuja after his health deteriorated.
Shagari was president 1979 to 1983 and won re-election before being dethroned by a coup d’etat led by Muhammadu Buhari and also made him military head of state in 1984.
The former leader was born February 25, 1925, in Shagari, in Sokoto. After his early education, he worked as a teacher for a brief period before entering politics in 1951.
In 1954, he was elected to the federal House of Representatives.
He served seven times in a ministerial or cabinet post as a federal minister and federal commissioner from 1958–1975, before he was elected president in 1979. He won a disputed re-election in 1983 that accelerated a military coup three months later after he was sworn in and the economy was on a precipitous decline.
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