A video showing the moment youths trooped out to celebrate the death of Nigeria’s late former President, Muhammadu Buhari, has surfaced on social media.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that Buhari, who ruled Nigeria as military head of state between 1983 and 1985, and later as a two-term civilian president from 2015 to 2023, died in London on Sunday while receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.
In the video that has become a growing sensation, captured the youths, in an undisclosed northern state, holding a banner of the late Nigerian leader, as they dance joyfully and sang on the streets.
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Meanwhile, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has hailed the late Nigerian leader as a towering figure whose public life spanned nearly six decades of military and civilian leadership, leaving an indelible mark on Nigeria’s governance landscape.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Tukur Muhammad-Baba, the group said it received the news of Buhari’s demise “with great sadness,” noting that the late elder statesman was until now one of only four surviving former Heads of State.
The Forum chronicled Buhari’s storied career, recalling how he first served as Military Governor of the defunct Northeastern State, now split into six states before becoming Federal Commissioner (Minister) of Petroleum Resources, then rising to Head of State from 1983 to 1985 following a military coup.
According to the ACF, “General Buhari had led a life full of momentous activities. He was a recurring decimal in policy and governance circles in Nigeria for nearly the past 60 years, having also fought actively in the Nigerian Civil War which ended in the unification of Nigeria.”
The ACF acknowledged that Buhari’s long years of public service were not without controversies, stressing that his time at the helm both as military ruler and as twice democratically elected President from 2015 to 2023 would continue to generate debates among historians and citizens alike.
“It is to be expected that some of the controversies and other memories as his legacies will linger and be subjected to analyses,” the Forum noted. “However, there is no Nigerian alive today that enjoyed the love and loyalty of the Nigerian downtrodden, especially in the North, like the late President Muhammadu Buhari.”
The ACF extended heartfelt condolences to Buhari’s family, the Government and people of Katsina State, and Nigerians at large. “We mourn Gen. Buhari and pray for the peaceful repose of his soul in Aljanna Firdaus,” it concluded.
