Muhammadu Buhari: 軍の 支配者 捜し出すing political return
Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari has tried three times to become 大統領，／社長 of Nigeria since the return to 非軍事の 支配する in 1999 -- and failed on each occasion.
The 72-year-old was Nigeria's 軍の 支配者 from December 31, 1983 to August 27, 1985 after he 追い出すd elected 大統領，／社長 Shehu Shagari, whose 政府 was 広範囲にわたって seen as corrupt and inept.
One former 上級の 軍の officer told AFP that Buhari, a devout イスラム教徒, was "exceptionally 汚職-解放する／自由な" and, 異常に for a Nigerian leader, did not 蓄積する much in the way of spoils.
Buhari was Nigeria's 軍の 支配者 from December 31, 1983 to August 27, 1985 after he 追い出すd elected 大統領，／社長 Shehu Sha gari, whose 政府?was 広範囲にわたって seen as corrupt and inept
But his 厳しい anti-汚職 姿勢 made him many political enemies, which remains a 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 for his return to high office.
Buhari began his 軍の career in 1962 and during his short time in 力／強力にする was 悪名高い for draconian 法令s, a 厳重取締 on "indiscipline" and human 権利s 乱用s.
In particular, the 死刑執行 of three young men, 設立する 有罪の retrospectively for 麻薬 trafficking, 誘発する／引き起こすd 国内の and international 乱暴／暴力を加える.
Critics of his 政権 were thrown in 刑務所，拘置所, の中で them the Afro-（警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 legend Fela Kuti for an 申し立てられた／疑わしい 通貨 違反 but which critics said was 政治上 動機づけるd.
Buhari was also at the centre of a major 外交の 列／漕ぐ／騒動 with former 植民地の 力／強力にする Britain after 試みる／企てるing to 密輸する Shagari's former 助言者 Umaru Dikko from London to Lagos.
Dikko, who had fled to the British 資本／首都 after his boss' 追放／剥奪, was 設立する drugged in a crate at Stansted Airport.
The British satirical magazine 私的な 注目する，もくろむ lampooned the 出来事/事件 with one of its most famous headlines: "飛行機で行く Nigeria -- It's a crate way to travel."
After his 追放／剥奪 by Ibrahim Bagangida in 1985, Buhari, who had once served as oil 大臣 in the 1970s, slipped out of public life.
But he made a return 20 years later as 長，率いる of a 政府 機関 基金ing 開発 事業／計画（する）s with 付加 歳入 from oil sales, where he 論証するd an 独裁的な but 効果的な style.
- 'Messianic zeal' -
"He is not very c ommunicative, he is reticent but やめる knowledgeable without flaunting it," said Ayo Banjoko, a Lagos-based political 分析家.
"He is imbued with a Messianic zeal. He has a rigid and intransigent disposition and he believes this country must and should be 粛清するd of its ills, 特に 汚職."
Buhari's 追求（する），探索（する） for a return to high office saw him 捜し出す the 大統領／総裁などの地位 under two different 政党s, in 2003, 2007 and 2011.
He lost out to Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan それぞれ.
Buhari complained of 甚だしい／１２ダース 不正行為s in all three 投票s but won a 圧勝 in APC 最初の／主要なs to take on Jonathan again and the 判決，裁定 PDP.
But although 法案d by the APC as the man to rid Nigeria of endemic 汚職，収賄 and end the Boko Haram 暴動, he has had to 直面する 多重の attacks from the 行政 in Abuja.
He has been portrayed as a 宗教的な zealot and it was （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that he was ineligible to even stand as he could not 最初 証明する that he had finished his 第２位 education.
But the APC has 小衝突d off the （人命などを）奪う，主張するs as an 試みる／企てる to コースを変える attention away from the 政府's 記録，記録的な／記録する in 力／強力にする.
In July 2014, Buhari 辛うじて escaped death after a 自殺 attack on his car as it travelled through the northern city of Kaduna: 42 people were killed and Boko Haram 交戦的なs 非難するd.
Two months earlier, Buhari had criticised Boko Haram as "mindless bigots masquerading as イスラム教徒s" for kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls from northeastern Nigeria. Some 分析家s have however not 支配するd out that the 爆破 may have been 政治上 動機づけるd.
主要な 対立 All 進歩／革新的なs 議会 (APC) 大統領の 候補者 Muhammadu Buhari speaks during an interview in Abuja on February 6, 2015
