Shehu Musa Yar'Adua
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Shehu Musa Yar'Adua (born March 5, 1943) was a Nigerian businessman, soldier, and politician. Following on his training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England, Yar'Adua's career as a soldier in the Civil War and his determined efforts as number two in the first military government to voluntarily hand over power to a civilian administration in 1979, inspired his vision for the necessity of grass-roots participatory democracy as a means to ensure stability and social harmony in Africa's most populous nation.
He was sentenced to life in [[prison] by a military tribunal in [[1995] after calling on the Nigerian military government of Gen. Sani Abacha and his Provisional Ruling Council to reestablish civilian rule. He died in captivity on December 8, 1997.
Yar'Adua was a retired major general and former vice president in Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo's military government of 1976-79.
[edit] Further reading
- Jacqueline W. Farris, Shehu Musa Yar'Adua: A Life of Service (Lynne Rienner Pub., 2004). ISBN 978-8069-36-3
This book was not written by Jacqueline W. Farris
It is the ultimate deceit - and one that Yar'Adua himself would surely have abhorred - to have turned the life of this complex, often brilliant, sometimes flawed Nigerian into a one-dimensional comic book account. In so doing, a unique opportunity has been missed to inform and make relevant the extraordinary choices an otherwise ordinary person must face and make - and how on those choices the destinies of nations can change - for good and bad.
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