{"id":4833,"date":"2025-07-13T19:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pillartoday.ng\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2025-07-13T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:36:51","slug":"president-tinubu-announces-former-president-buharis-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"pillartoday.com.ng\/?p=4833","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu Announces Former President Buhari&#8217;s Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Late former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Dianabasi Effiong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the passing of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known in a statement on Sunday by Bayo Onanuga,<br \/>\nSpecial Adviser to the President,<br \/>\nInformation and Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement the former President &#8220;died today in London at about 4.30 p.m., following a prolonged illness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It stated, &#8220;President Tinubu has spoken with Mrs Aishat Buhari, the former President&#8217;s widow and offered his deep condolences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Tinubu has also ordered Vice President Kashim Shettima to proceed to the United Kingdom to accompany President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s body back to Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former President was elected Nigeria&#8217;s President twice (2015 and 2019).<\/p>\n<p>He also served as military head of state between January 1984 and August 1985.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Tinubu has ordered flags at half-staff as a mark of respect for the departed leader,&#8221; the statement added. FC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late former President Muhammadu Buhari. By Dianabasi Effiong President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the passing of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari. This was made known in a statement on Sunday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy. According to the statement the former President &#8220;died today in London at about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}