The body of former President Muhammadu Buhari has been laid to rest amidst tears in his compound in Daura on Tuesday.
Buhari died on Sunday in a hospital in London, United Kingdom, after a protracted illness, at the age of 82.
TheFact Daily gathered that the Katsina State Government took the decision for his remains to be buried in his Daura compound.
He was twice elected Nigeria’s President in 2015 and 2023, and also served as military head of state between January 1984 and August 1985.
His administration was anchored on three-pronged agenda of Security, Economic Development and Fight Against Corruption.
According to the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu received the remains of former President Muhammadu Buhari at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina, along with Vice President Kashim Shettima, President Umaru Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau, Prime Minister of Niger, Ali Lamine Zeine, former President of Niger, Issoufou Mahamadou, and former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
He said President Tinubu arrived at the airport from Abuja at 1:42 p.m. and inspected a guard of honour before the Nigerian Air Force plane conveying the remains of his predecessor landed at exactly 1:51 p.m.
He also disclosed that Vice President Kashim Shettima, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, President Buhari’s wife Aisha, and other family members accompanied President Buhari’s remains to Nigeria.
Onanuga said, a joint team of military pallbearers comprising nine senior officers laid the casket, draped with the Nigerian flag, on a trolley. The team included Major-General Mohammed Usman, Major-General Oluwafemi Williams, Major-General Shuaibu Nudu, Rear Admiral Suleiman Dahun, Rear Admiral Jonathan Ajodo, Rear Admiral Samuel Ngatuwa, Air Vice Marshal Adeniyi Herbert Amesinlola, Air Vice Marshal Idi Sanni, and Air Vice Marshal Obinna Obiabaka. Major General Mike Alechenu coordinated the team.
He said the pallbearers wheeled the former leader’s casket in a slow march, in sync with the hymn “God Be With You Till We Meet Again,” passing through a full military guard of honour comprising six officers and 96 soldiers drawn from the Nigerian Armed Forces.
President Tinubu, according to him, and others walked behind the casket trolley in a solemn procession.
The pallbearers escorted the casket into a waiting military hearse for one-hour journey to Daura, where funeral prayers were held and was later buried with full military honours, including a 21-gun salute.
