Shagari, Shehu

Shagari, Shehu

▪ president of Nigeria
in full  Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari 
born 1925, Shagari, Nigeria

      Nigerian politician, president of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983.

      Shagari's great-grandfather founded the village from which the family took its name. Shagari was educated at Kaduna College and taught school briefly. As one of the few northerners to show an interest in national politics, he ran for office in 1954 and was elected to the federal House of Representatives. Thereafter he held several posts and was a member of every administration after Nigeria's independence in 1960. After a military coup led by Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi in 1966 ended civilian government, he retired to his hometown. General Yakubu Gowon (Gowon, Yakubu) appointed him federal commissioner for economic development in 1971, a position he took over from Chief Obafemi Awolowo (Awolowo, Obafemi). He faced Awolowo in 1979 and narrowly defeated him in presidential elections after the military government, now led by Olusegun Obasanjo (Obasanjo, Olusegun), allowed a return to civilian rule.

      Nigeria was badly shaken by the international economic crisis of the early 1980s. Shagari took several steps to try to strengthen the economy—cutting the budget, calling in the International Monetary Fund, and expelling two million aliens (mostly Ghanaians) in 1983. He won the bitterly contested presidential elections in 1983, but the state of the economy and corruption in his administration worsened, and on December 31 a military coup led by Major General Muhammad Buhari (Buhari, Muhammad) toppled the government, and Shagari was arrested. Shagari was cleared of personal corruption charges and released from detention in 1986 but was banned from participation in Nigerian politics for life.

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