Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari , born February 25, 1925 , served as the first and only President of the nations Second Republic between 1979–1983, after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo's military government. Shagari also served many times in a cabinet post as a federal minister and federal commissioner between 1958 and 1975.
Alhaji Shehu Shagari entered politics in 1951, when he became the secretary of the Northern People’s Congress in Sokoto a position he held until 1956.
In 1954, alhaji Shehu Shagari was elected into his first public office as a member of the House of Representatives for Sokoto west. In 1958, Shagari was appointed as parliamentary secretary a post he left in 1959. He also served as the Federal Minister for commerce and Industries.
From 1959-1960, Alhaji Shagari was redeployed to the ministry for economic development, as the Federal Minister for Economic Development. Fom 1960-1962, he was Federal Minister for Pensions. From 1962-1965, Alhaji Shagari was the Federal minister for internal affairs. From 1965 up until the first military coup in January 1966, he was the Federal minister for works.
In 1967 he was appointed as the secretary for Sokoto province education development fund. From 1968-1969, Shagari was given a state position in the North Western State as commissioner for establishments.
After the Nigerian civil war, from 1970-1971, Shagari was appointed by the military head of state General Yakubu Gowon as the federal commissioner for economic development, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
From 1971-75 he served as the Federal commissioner (position now called minister) of finance. During his tenure as the commissioner of finance for Nigeria, Shagari was also a governor for the world bank and a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) committee of twenty.
In 1978, Shehu Shagari was a founding member of the National People’s Party. In 1979 Shagari was chosen by the party as the presidential candidate for general election that year, which he won becoming the president and head of state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Shagari ran for a second four-year term in 1983 and won the general election, however, on 31 December 1983, Shagari was overthrown by major general Muhammadu Buhari.[6]
Shagari was made the Turaki of the FulaSokoto Caliphate in 1962 by the Sultan of Sokoto Siddiq Abubakar III. Turaki means an officer at court, in this case referring to the sultan's court at the palace of Sokoto. In addition, he also holds the chieftaincy titles of the Ochiebuzo of Ogbaland, the Ezediale of Aboucha and the Baba Korede of Ado Ekiti.
He worked as a teacher for a brief period before entering politics in 1951 and in 1954 was elected to the federal House of Representatives. At 93, he died today, 28th December 2018.
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