Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, Turakin Sakkwato (born February 25, 1925,) served as the President of Nigeria

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's Second Republic

Nigerian Second Republic

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 (1979–1983), after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo's military government.

Shagari is a northerner of Fulani

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 extraction and holds the aristocratic

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 title of Turakin Sakkwato in
the Sokoto Caliphate. He worked as a teacher for a brief period before entering politics in 1954 upon his election to the federal House of Representatives

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Shehu Usman Shagari was born in Shagari

Shagari, Nigeria

Shagari is a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Shagari on the A1 highway. The LGA shares a border with Zamfara State in the south....

 village

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 to the family of Magaji Aliyu and Mariamu in 1925.