Photos: BBC Visits Where Buhari Grew Up As A Boy + His Sister.

On Tuesday, the opposition leader General Muhammadu Buhari was elected president of Nigeria. Many across northern Nigeria, especially in Daura his birthplace, have been celebrating ever since. See more .


Buhari said that he had ruled Nigeria as part of a military administration
The BBC’s reporter Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar visited the very house where General Buhari was born. Here are photos from the video the news site released and they truly reflect Buhari’s humble beginnings. The video reveals that his relatives still live there and Gen Buhari’s sister, Rakiya Amadodo Muhammadu, is excited and elated that her brother has been elected president of Nigeria.

The BBC’s Abdullahi also chatted with Buhari’s best friend while he was young, Alhaji Lawal Aliyu. When he was asked what kind of a boy Buhari was, Alhaji Aliyu said he was a cool, disciplined boy. He said that it was when he went to secondary school and he later joined the military that he became more and more disciplined.

Alhaji Aliyu revealed that as disciplined as the general was as a young boy, he never bullied him.



Buhari's sister.Rakiya Amadodo Muhammadu