{"id":120605,"date":"2025-07-14T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=120605"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:00:50","slug":"buhari-was-disciplined-courageous-leader-pdp-mourns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/buhari-was-disciplined-courageous-leader-pdp-mourns\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari was disciplined, courageous leader, PDP mourns\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1837569518666575710\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1837569518666575710-header\" class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1837569518666575710-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said it received with deep sadness the news of the death of the immediate past President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, in a hospital in London, United Kingdom.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, described the former president as \u201ca courageous leader and highly disciplined military officer who dedicated his life towards the service of the nation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe departed former President will be remembered by Nigerians for his roles and policies in government as Governor of Borno State, Federal Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), Military Head of State and later as democratically elected President.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PDP commiserated with late President Buhari\u2019s widow, Hajia Aisha Buhari and the entire Buhari family; the Federal Government, the Nigeria Army, the government and people of Katsina State and the Daura Emirate for this national loss and prays to the Almighty Allah to forgive his shortcomings and grant him eternal repose.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former President died at the age on 82, on Sunday after a brief illness in a London clinic.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said it received with deep sadness the news of the death of the immediate past President of the Federal Republic&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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