The Nigerian Senate has announced plans to hold a special session on Wednesday to honour the late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The session will be dedicated to reflecting on Buhari’s legacies and his contributions to national development following his recent death.
This comes a week after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) held a special session in his honour. During that event, President Bola Tinubu lauded Buhari for leading the nation “with restraint, governing with dignity and bearing the burdens of leadership without complaint.”
Buhari passed away in London on July 13 after a prolonged, undisclosed illness at the age of 82. He was buried last week in his hometown of Daura, Katsina State, in a ceremony attended by dignitaries from within and outside Nigeria.
The Katsina-born leader was Nigeria’s second-longest-serving head of state, first as a military ruler from 1983 to 1985, and later as a democratically elected president from 2015 to 2023.
