Neozy:
Shagari's government successfully builded the solid foundation of corruption and/or looting of public funds in Nigeria. Subsequent governments just built on the foudation and the house(corruption) is standing strong today and going from strength to strength. I don't blame him though, i only blame Obasanjo who helped him rig the election and influence and manipulated court decisions. Awolowo is the best president Nigeria never had.

Decryptor:


Oga...Awolowo was never the president of Nigeria. He was a premier of Western region.

Zaikon:
Gone too soon

Either Buhari of Atiku, thats what gon end everyone.

Neozy:

Calm down and read my comment again.

EmagNig:
Shehu Shagari is dead. He died at the age of 93.

His demise was announced on twitter by his grandson, Bello Shagari.

Bello Shagari tweeted:



The moment Bello Shagari announced the death of the former President, consolatory messages have been pouring in from friends, families and associates.

Umar Kaltungo‏ wrote:

Breaking!! Inna Lillahi wa'ina Ilaihin Raji'un! Sources from the National Hospital just informed me that Former President SHEHU SHAGARI IS DEAD. He died a few minutes ago. May Allah grant him Aljannat Firdausi.

Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari GCFR, (born February 25, 1925 - December 28, 2018 served as the first and only President of Nigeria's Second Republic (1979–1983), after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo's military government.

Shagari also served seven times in a ministerial or cabinet post as a federal minister and federal commissioner from 1958–1975.

https://lailasnews.com/shehu-shagari-is-dead/

lalasticlala mynd44

W3xy1:
May Allah repose his soul in aljanat firdas and forgive his shortcomings

Decryptor:


Oh...i read it again. Thank God he was never president. He would have actually been the worst!

Neozy:

Why? Explain yourself.

Jayslicky:
R.I.P to the old man, this is the innocent man mr integrity buhari plotted a coup against, in a good country buhari would not qualify to contest in an election because of his past atrocities.

Jayslicky:
R.I.P to the old man, this is the innocent man mr integrity buhari plotted a coup against.

engrjacuzzi:
the same man Fela sang about. Padi Padi government.

Neozy:
Shagari's government successfully built the solid foundation of corruption and/or looting of public funds in Nigeria. Subsequent governments just built on the foudation and the house(corruption) is standing strong today and going from strength to strength. I don't blame him though, i only blame Obasanjo who helped him rig the election and influence and manipulated court decisions. Awolowo is the best president Nigeria never had.

OreMI22:


A great man and man of Peace.

May almighty Allah accept your soul and rest in peace.

Who knows where Nigeria would have been today if Buhari didn't plot the coup of 1984 to abort democracy in Nigeria?

That was the beginning of all the evils we experienced up till this day.

omohayek:
Only in Nigeria will the passing at the venerable old age of 93 of a terrible leader like Shagari, who oversaw a jamboree of looting only equaled under Abacha, be hailed as if it were the untimely demise of a Mandela-like, saintly figure. Massive vote-rigging, import-licensing monopolies, gigantic white elephant projects, huge payouts for contracts that were never executed, federal offices being set on fire to destroy evidence of corruption - you name it, the Shagari government saw it happen.

Let's call a spade a spade: just because it was Buhari who overthrew Shagari's utterly corrupt regime doesn't mean we have to forget how awful things were between 1979 and 1983. The excuse that Shagari didn't know what was going on won't wash either, as no one forced him to become the Presidential candidate for the NPN, or to stay in office as the economy sank under the weight of rampant borrowing to fund kleptocracy run riot. Shagari was very lucky most Nigerians have short memories and are ignorant of even the recent history of their own country, or he would have had to live the rest of his years in exile for fear of the rage of the masses.

As for those whose hatred of Buhari makes them praise Shagari as some sort of victim, Buhari and Idiagbon's coup would never have had any legitimacy in the first place if Shagari was the wise and honest leader you wish to make him out to have been. It was Shagari's own feckless rule which provided the excuse the coup-plotters needed to strike, and I'm old enough to remember that for this very reason there was near universal jubilation amongst the populace at first (until the jubilating masses eventually came to realize that wearing military khaki doesn't make a man either wise or honest).

omohayek:
Only in Nigeria will the passing at the venerable old age of 93 of a terrible leader like Shagari, who oversaw a jamboree of looting only equaled under Abacha, be hailed as if it were the untimely demise of a Mandela-like, saintly figure. Massive vote-rigging, import-licensing monopolies, gigantic white elephant projects, huge payouts for contracts that were never executed, federal offices being set on fire to destroy evidence of corruption - you name it, the Shagari government saw it happen.

Let's call a spade a spade: just because it was Buhari who overthrew Shagari's utterly corrupt regime doesn't mean we have to forget how awful things were between 1979 and 1983. The excuse that Shagari didn't know what was going on won't wash either, as no one forced him to become the Presidential candidate for the NPN, or to stay in office as the economy sank under the weight of rampant borrowing to fund kleptocracy run riot. Shagari was very lucky most Nigerians have short memories and are ignorant of even the recent history of their own country, or he would have had to live the rest of his years in exile for fear of the rage of the masses.

As for those whose hatred of Buhari makes them praise Shagari as some sort of victim, Buhari and Idiagbon's coup would never have had any legitimacy in the first place if Shagari was the wise and honest leader you wish to make him out to have been. It was Shagari's own feckless rule which provided the excuse the coup-plotters needed to strike, and I'm old enough to remember that for this very reason there was near universal jubilation amongst the populace at first (until the jubilating masses eventually came to realize that wearing military khaki doesn't make a man either wise or honest).

omohayek:
Only in Nigeria will the passing at the venerable old age of 93 of a terrible leader like Shagari, who oversaw a jamboree of looting only equaled under Abacha, be hailed as if it were the untimely demise of a Mandela-like, saintly figure. Massive vote-rigging, import-licensing monopolies, gigantic white elephant projects, huge payouts for contracts that were never executed, federal offices being set on fire to destroy evidence of corruption - you name it, the Shagari government saw it happen.

Let's call a spade a spade: just because it was Buhari who overthrew Shagari's utterly corrupt regime doesn't mean we have to forget how awful things were between 1979 and 1983. The excuse that Shagari didn't know what was going on won't wash either, as no one forced him to become the Presidential candidate for the NPN, or to stay in office as the economy sank under the weight of rampant borrowing to fund kleptocracy run riot. Shagari was very lucky most Nigerians have short memories and are ignorant of even the recent history of their own country, or he would have had to live the rest of his years in exile for fear of the rage of the masses.

As for those whose hatred of Buhari makes them praise Shagari as some sort of victim, Buhari and Idiagbon's coup would never have had any legitimacy in the first place if Shagari was the wise and honest leader you wish to make him out to have been. It was Shagari's own feckless rule which provided the excuse the coup-plotters needed to strike, and I'm old enough to remember that for this very reason there was near universal jubilation amongst the populace at first (until the jubilating masses eventually came to realize that wearing military khaki doesn't make a man either wise or honest).

chadahh:
R, I. P

Abfinest007:
go and inherit ur 17 virgins in hell