Shehu Usman Aliyu ShagariGCFR (Hausa pronunciationⓘ; 25 February 1925 – 28 December 2018) was a Nigerian politician who was the first democratically elected president of Nigeria, after the transfer of power by military head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1979 giving rise to the Second Nigerian Republic.[2]
An experienced politician, he briefly worked as a teacher before entering politics in 1951; and was elected into the House of Representatives in 1954. At various times between 1958 through independence of Nigeria in 1960 and 1975, he held a cabinet post as a federal commissioner or as a federal minister. As president, Shagari presided over the mass deportation of West African migrants in 1983, which primarily impacted Ghanaian migrants in Nigeria.[3]
^Shagari, Shehu Usman Aliyu (2001). Shehu Shagari : beckoned to serve : an autobiography. Internet Archive. Nigeria : Heinemann ed. books (Nigeria) plc. p. 89. ISBN 978-978-129-932-2.
^"Shehu Shagari obituary". The Guardian. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
^Solomonov, M. (15 August 2015). "Ghana Must Go: Exodus From Nigeria Remembered". Yen.com.gh. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
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