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By Moruf Akanbi

.Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, during a meeting with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in Belem Presidential Palace in Lisbon, Portugal at the beginning of his state visit to the country on June 30, 2022.

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CNN— 

Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military general who campaigned on rooting out government corruption, has died at age 82, the presidential press office said in a statement on Sunday.

He died in London at about 4:30 p.m. after a “prolonged illness,” according to the statement.

Nigeria’s current president Bola Ahmed Tinubu offered his condolences to Buhari’s wife and ordered his vice president to travel to the UK to accompany Buhari’s body back to Nigeria.