{"id":169435,"date":"2025-07-14T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:19:56","slug":"buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Nigeria Has Lost a Great Leader PDP Chieftain Sowunmi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Segun Sowunmi, has mourned the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari died while receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in London, United Kingdom, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Showunmi, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, said the country has lost a great leader.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that Buhari was a no-nonsense man in his approach to discipline and had always brought things under control.<\/p>\n<p>Showunmi said, \u201cWhen EndSARS happened, I saw the General and crisis manager come forward again, as that was a point that could have imploded the country, but hey, once a general, always a general he brought things under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure, sure it might not have been tidy, but losing the country to a manipulated implosion was not to be allowed under him. When non-state actors overplayed their hands again, I saw him nip them in the bud with command instructions appropriately given to end the madness, and it ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw him struggle with insurgency, and perhaps its very nature made that type of asymmetrical war difficult to curb. The targets are too mobile, too formless, and camouflaged, for any citizen looks just like any terrorist. I suppose his lack of desire to call it terrorism did not help matters, and he must have oversimplified the challenge before getting onto the saddle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI admired his desire to give to the poor and most vulnerable in our country with his numerous pro-poor social interventions aimed at providing a social safety net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Showuni, who is the convener and promoter of The Alternative, a movement established to address Nigeria\u2019s democratic challenges, insisted that Buhari was different from other politicians and kept to his words and prayed that Allah grants him Al-Jannah when his time comes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis ability to keep his word was legendary. His discipline, his frugality made you wonder, Oh Buhari, why are you so different from them all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh Allah, do grant him Al-Jannah when it is his time. Let his prayers accompany him in the grave, grant him provision worthy of a Wali, make the nur of his namesake, the great prophet of Islam Muhammad (PBUH) light up his grave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost a great leader. We are sad but thankful for the opportunity that he was one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Segun Sowunmi, has mourned the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari died while receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in London, United Kingdom, on Sunday. Showunmi, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, said the country has lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[97,254,65,10620],"class_list":["post-169435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-sowunmi"],"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>Buhari Nigeria Has Lost a Great Leader PDP Chieftain Sowunmi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Segun Sowunmi, has mourned the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari. ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari Nigeria Has Lost a Great Leader PDP Chieftain Sowunmi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Segun Sowunmi, has mourned the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-14T14:19:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-14T15:19:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752493918.800327.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari Nigeria Has Lost a Great Leader PDP Chieftain Sowunmi\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-14T14:19:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-14T15:19:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi\"},\"wordCount\":408,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752493918.800327.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Sowunmi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/buhari-nigeria-has-lost-a-great-leader-pdp-chieftain-sowunmi\",\"name\":\"Buhari Nigeria Has Lost a Great Leader PDP Chieftain Sowunmi - 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