Former President of Nigeria, Shehu Shagari who died on Friday will be buried on Saturday December 29 in Sokoto, according to the family.
Shagari’s grandson, Nuradeen Mahe told journalists in Sokoto that the ex-president would be flown from Abuja to Sokoto for burial on Saturday, in accordance with Islamic rites.
Shagari died at 6:40 p.m. at the age of 93 at the National Hospital in Abuja.
Mr Mahe said he was flown to Abuja after his health deteriorated.
Shagari was president from 1979 to 1983 and won re-election before being dethroned by a military coup that brought in Muhammadu Buhari as military head of state.
The former leader was born on February 25, 1925 in Sokoto.
After his early education, he worked as a teacher briefly before joining politics in 1951.
In 1954, he was elected to the Federal House of Representatives.
Shagari served seven times in a ministerial post as a federal minister and federal commissioner from 1958–1975, before he was elected president in 1979.
He won a disputed re-election in 1983 that accelerated a military coup three months later after he was sworn in with the economy in the fall.
