What is Shehu Shagari?
{{Infobox officeholder |name=Shehu Shagari |image=Shehu Shagari 1980-10-07.jpg |imagesize=180px |order=6th [[President of Nigeria]] |term_start=October 1, 1979 |term_end=December 31, 1983 |vicepresident=[[Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme]] |predecessor=[[Olusegun Obasanjo]] |successor=[[Muhammadu Buhari]] |birth_date={{birth date|1925|2|25|df=yes}} |birth_place=[[Shagari, Nigeria|Shagari]], [[Sokoto State]], [[Nigeria]] |death_date={{death date and age|2018|12|28|1925|2|25|df=yes}} |death_place=[[Abuja]], Nigeria |party=[[National Party of Nigeria]] |signature= |}} '''Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari''', ''Turakin Sakkwato'' (25 February 1925<ref>{{cite news |first=Abubakar Atiku |last=Nuhu-Koko |title=Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, GCFR, @ 83 |url=http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php/content/view/8612/55 |work=Daily Triumph (Kano) |publisher=[[Triumph Publishing]] Company Limited, via nigeriavillagesquare.com |date=2008-02-26 |accessdate=2008-02-26 |archive-date=2008-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227185234/http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php/content/view/8612/55 |url-status=dead }}</ref> &ndash; 28 December 2018) was a [[Nigeria]]n [[politician]]. He served as the [[President of Nigeria|President]] of Nigeria's [[Second Nigerian Republic|Second Republic]] from 1979 to 1983. His government was given power by General [[Olusegun Obasanjo]]'s military government. Shagari died on 28 December 2018 at a hospital in [[Abuja]], Nigeria from a short-illness at the age of 93.<ref>[http://www.africanews.com/2018/12/28/nigeria-s-first-executive-president-shehu-shagari-dies-aged-93/ Nigeria's first executive president, Shehu Shagari, dies aged 93]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shagari, Shehu}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Presidents of Nigeria]]