President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his condolences on the death of his niece, Hajiya Laraba Dauda.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, announced this in a statement on Thursday, December 9, 2022.
"On his second day at home, President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with his extended family members on the death of his niece, Hajiya Laraba Dauda, who died leaving behind children and grandchildren," the statement said.
"She is also survived by several brothers and sisters, including the President's nephew, Malam Mamman Daura, who was in Daura to mourn with their family members."
Buhari described the late Laraba as a "caring mother, full of life and wit, who was very passionate about her family's welfare."
"Her death is heartbreaking, but Allah knows best. My condolences go out to everyone she left behind. "May Allah rest her soul," the President said.
Muhammadu Buhari (listen) GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician who has been the country's president since 2015.
Buhari is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the country's military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after seizing power in a military coup. Buharism refers to his military regime's authoritarian policies.
Buhari ran for Nigerian president three times: in 2003, 2007, and 2011. He was announced as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress party for the 2015 general election in December 2014. Buhari defeated incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the election. It was the first time in Nigerian history that an incumbent president lost a general election. On May 29, 2015, he was sworn in. Buhari was re-elected in February 2019, defeating his closest rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, by more than 3 million votes.
Buhari was born on December 17, 1942, in Katsina State, to a Fulani family. His father was Mallam Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chieftain from Dumurkul in Mai'Adua, and his mother was Zulaihat, who had Hausa and Kanuri ancestry. He is his father's twenty-third child and was named after the ninth-century Persian Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari. 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, Katsina Middle School in 1953, and Katsina Provincial Secondary School from 1956 to 1961.
Buhari married his first wife, Safinatu (née Yusuf), in 1971. They shared five children, four girls and one boy. Zulaihat (Zulai), their first child, was named after Buhari's mother. Their other children are Fatima, Musa (deceased son), Hadiza, and Safinatu. The former first lady died from diabetes complications on January 14, 2006. Zulaihat (née Buhari) Junaid, Buhari's first daughter, died from sickle cell anaemia two days after giving birth at a hospital in Kaduna in November 2012.
Buhari and his first wife, Safinatu, divorced in 1988. Buhari married his second and current wife, Aisha Buhari (née Halilu), in December 1989. They also had five children: Aisha, Halima, Yusuf, Zahra, and Amina, a boy and four girls. In August 202, Yusuf married Zahra Nasir Bayero, the daughter of Emir Nasiru Ado Bayero.
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