Muhammadu Buhari Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====2007 presidential election==== On 18 December 2006, Buhari was nominated as the consensus candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party. His main challenger in the April 2007 polls was the ruling PDP candidate, [[Umaru Yar'Adua]], who hailed from the same home state of [[Katsina State|Katsina]]. Buhari officially took 18% of the vote to Yar'Adua's 70%, but Buhari rejected these results.<ref name=Huge>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6584393.stm "Huge win for Nigeria's Yar'Adua"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426235748/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6584393.stm |date=26 April 2007 }}, BBC News, 23 April 2007.</ref> After Yar'Adua took office, he called for a government of national unity to bring on board aggrieved opposition members. The ANPP joined the government with appointment of its national chairman as a member of Yar'Adua's cabinet, but Buhari denounced this agreement.<ref>Felix Onuah and Camillus Eboh, [https://archive.today/20070517203204/http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20070704220154487C404988 "Nigerian president picks ministers"], Reuters (''IOL''), 4 July 2007.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page