Umaru Yar'Adua
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flag this descriptionUmaru Musa Yar'Adua (born 16 August 1951), also known as Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'adua, is the President of Nigeria and the 13th Head of State. He served as governor of Katsina State in northern Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 28 May 2007. He was declared the winner of the controversial Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).
Yar'Adua was born into an aristocratic Fulani family in Katsina; his father, a former Minister for Lagos during the First Republic, held the royal title of Mutawalli (custodian of the treasury) of the Katsina Emirate, a title which Yar'Adua has inherited. He started his education at Rafukka Primary School in 1958, and moved to Dutsinma Boarding Primary School in 1962. He attended the Government College at Keffi from 1965 until 1969. In 1979 he received a Higher School Certificate from Barewa College. He attended Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria from 1972 to 1975, attaining a BSc in Education and Chemistry, and then returned in 1978 to achieve an M.Sc Degree in Analytical Chemistry.
Yar'Adua's first employment was at Holy Child College in Lagos (1975–1976).
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this country must be saved. I believe in save Nigeria. People must also be able to demonstrate but if I am demonstrating as save Nigeria, allow the governor also to use their own tactics of saving Nigeria. It is not only your own that is better. All of us must work from different ways to save this democracy and save Nigeria
if you have thermometer to measure the political temperature, let's say there is a way of measuring it, the political temperature before the governors meeting and the political temperature after the meeting, if we must tell each other the truth, cannot be the same. The political temperature dropped
I told you that within two days he approved Joint Taskforce for security in my state.
we are serving the people and our people say, 'please, when you go to Abuja, make sure we protect this country first. Make sure nothing happens to this country and this country is not the exclusive preserve for anybody, all of us must be in it.
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