{"id":1088,"date":"2018-12-29T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2018-12-29T14:11:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T14:11:13","slug":"shehu-shagari-why-buhari-should-have-been-killed-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shehu-shagari-why-buhari-should-have-been-killed-atiku","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Shagari: Why Buhari should have been killed \u2013 Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties (PCUP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari formourning Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the first Executive President of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CPb8udmUxd8CFVgs4Aod0XgDQw\">\n<p>Shagari, 93, died on Friday at the National Hospital after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP spokesman, in a statement on Saturday, said Buhari was one of the officers who dethroned the Shagari government in 1983 and should save his condolences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CPf8udmUxd8CFVgs4Aod0XgDQw\">\n<p>He said: \u201cWe commiserate with the Shagari family, the Sokoto State Government and indeed all Nigerians on such a huge loss of a nationalist and elder statesman per excellence particularly at these very challenging times. We also pray God to grant the family the fortitude to bear the loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Shagari was a democrat who believed in the supremacy of the power of the people and only succumbed to the barrel of the gun of people who did not and still do not believe in the tenets of democracy and the supremacy of the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe however urge President Muhammadu Buhari to keep his tributes in honour of Alhaji Shehu Shagari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Grand Alliance leadership has directed all the over 50 parties in the opposition coalition to fly their party flags at half mast as mark of respect to this great hero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria shall overcome this loss by the special grace of God and democracy will once again not fail in our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties (PCUP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari formourning Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the first Executive President of Nigeria. Shagari, 93, died on Friday at the National Hospital after a brief illness. Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP spokesman, in a statement on Saturday, said Buhari was one of the officers who dethroned the Shagari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,87],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-muhammadu-buhari"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shehu Shagari: Why Buhari should have been killed \u2013 Atiku - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shehu-shagari-why-buhari-should-have-been-killed-atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shehu Shagari: Why Buhari should have been killed \u2013 Atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Coalition of United Political Parties (PCUP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari formourning Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the first Executive President of Nigeria. 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