Interfaith pair wins Nigeria election
(The Christian Science Monitor) When Nigerians talk of General Muhammadu Buhari, their newly elected president, they use words like strict and iron-fisted.
These traits are ingrained in society’s image of him from his days as Nigeria’s head of state in the early 1980s. After leading a successful military coup in 1983, he declared that, among other things, he would wage “war against indiscipline.”
Now, at 72 years old, he is still remembered for his regime’s no-nonsense policy. Buhari’s record includes numerous allegations of human rights violations. He has also had to clear himself of accusations of being a religious extremist because of his past support of strict Islamic law in northern Nigeria, accusations he has consistently denied.
