Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Yar'Adua was born in the city of Katsina in northern Nigeria on 16 August 1951. ¹ He attended Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria from 1972 to 1975, obtaining a bachelor's degree in Education and Chemistry, and returned in 1978 for a master's degree in Analytical Chemistry. ¹ He then worked as a teacher and lecturer in colleges in Katsina and Zaria in the late 1970s until 1983, before moving into business, managing Sambo Farms Ltd and serving on the boards of several companies and a bank. ²

Yar'Adua was elected governor of Katsina State for the Peoples Democratic Party in 1999 and re-elected in 2003, remaining in office until 2007. ¹ In August 2000 Katsina under him joined the northern Nigerian states adopting sharia, after significant public pressure from Muslim groups in the state, with Yar'Adua himself accused of impeding its implementation; his government also took steps to accommodate the non-Muslim population, admitting Christian students to Al-Qalam University and sponsoring Christian pilgrims as it did Muslim pilgrims. ¹

Yar'Adua won the election of 21 April 2007 and was sworn in as president on 29 May 2007, with Goodluck Jonathan as his vice-president. ¹ He was ill during his presidency and travelled abroad for treatment repeatedly; he died at the presidential residence, Aso Villa, in Abuja on 5 May 2010, and Jonathan succeeded him. ^{1 3} An Islamic burial took place in his hometown of Katsina on 6 May 2010. ¹

The sources used here name no school for Yar'Adua: the English article does not call him personally a Muslim, and its religion material is his state's adoption of sharia in 2000 and his Islamic burial; the Arabic article files him under "Nigerian Muslims", and Wikidata gives a single value, Islam. His faith value is therefore left unclassified (unknown) in his record. ^{1 2 3}

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