At a glance
- Roles
- Politician · teacher
- Region
- West Africa & Sahel
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
President of the Second Republic
When the military head of state Olusegun Obasanjo handed power to a civilian government in 1979, Shagari became Nigeria's first democratically elected president. He was re-elected in 1983, but his second term was cut short within months by the coup of 31 December 1983 1 2. He died in Abuja on 28 December 2018, aged 93 1 3.
Affiliation, as the sources attest it
The word "Sunni" occurs in the English article's text exactly once, in the family framing that Shagari was "born ... to a Sunni Muslim Fulani family" — attached to his family, not to him 1. The English and Arabic articles file him in "Nigerian Sunni Muslims" categories, and Wikidata carries a single structured value of Sunni Islam 2 3. Family framing, category filings and one structured value are one framing family, not two independent attestations, so the record keeps his affiliation unknown, flagged for the founder's word, with the Sunni reading preserved in the record's note.
Sources
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Connections
- Predecessor of
- Muhammadu Buhari
People and things also explored
Sources
- Shehu Shagari — English Wikipedia
- Shehu Shagari — Arabic Wikipedia
- Shehu Shagari — Wikidata Q380668
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shehu Shagari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shehu-shagari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.