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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

1951 - 2010

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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ((); 16 August 1951 – 5 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007. He had previously served as the governor of Katsina State from 1999 to 2007; and was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In 2009, Yar'Adua left for Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for pericarditis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is the 9,700th most popular politician (up from 10,495th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 18th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Nigerian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ranks 9,700 out of 19,576. Before him are Valdemar the Young, Iset, Butigeidis, Phankham Viphavanh, Carrie Lam, and Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. After him are Werner Lorenz, Edward Dickinson Baker, Edith Head, Franz Kutschera, Ernst Fast, and Emperor Ai of Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ranks 166. Before him are Marcel Iureș, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Li Hongzhi, Börje Salming, Bill Walker, and Phankham Viphavanh. After him are Danilo Medina, Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, Jeanette, Alvin E. Roth, Andy Thomas, and Orson Scott Card. Among people deceased in 2010, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ranks 127. Before him are Steingrímur Hermannsson, Luigi Poggi, Fud Leclerc, José Torres, Rasim Delić, and Emilio Eduardo Massera. After him are Albert Ghiorso, Howard Zinn, Cécile Aubry, Georges Wilson, Raimon Panikkar, and Charlie Hickcox.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ranks 19 out of 309. Before him are Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1809), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Bola Tinubu (1952), Jay-Jay Okocha (1973), John Obi Mikel (1987), and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954). After him are Sani Abacha (1943), Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941), Moshood Abiola (1937), Hakeem Olajuwon (1963), Olaudah Equiano (1745), and Amos Tutuola (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nigeria

Among politicians born in Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ranks 6. Before him are C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Murtala Mohammed (1938), Muhammadu Buhari (1942), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), and Bola Tinubu (1952). After him are Sani Abacha (1943), Moshood Abiola (1937), Yakubu Gowon (1934), Shehu Shagari (1925), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), and Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904).

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