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Muhammadu Buhari died at 82 in a London clinic on July 13. The strongman-turned-democrat led Nigeria twice – as a military ruler from 1983 to 1985 and an elected president from 2015 to 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n Muhammadu\u00a0<\/a> Buhari’s\u00a0<\/a>legacy \u00a0in\u00a0 Nigeria\u00a0<\/a>is \u00a0likely to be mixed. He will be remembered for trying\u00a0to foster integrity in the country\u00a0and for\u00a0leadership that was deeply flawed.<\/p>\n “From his military era to his two-term civilian presidency, he leaves behind a legacy filled with both praise and pain. We must…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Muhammadu Buhari died at 82 in a London clinic on July 13. The strongman-turned-democrat led Nigeria twice – as a military ruler from 1983 to 1985 and an elected president from 2015 to 2023. Muhammadu\u00a0 Buhari’s\u00a0legacy \u00a0in\u00a0 Nigeria\u00a0is \u00a0likely to be mixed. He will be remembered for trying\u00a0to foster integrity in the country\u00a0and for\u00a0leadership that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00511075:2918c13a4eb1053d9b21cd7f57a71284:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5228,11879,5227,257,4687,393,22461,6338,254],"class_list":["post-202469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buhari","tag-legacy","tag-muhammadu","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pain","tag-praise","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00511075:2918c13a4eb1053d9b21cd7f57a71284:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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