Former President Goodluck Jonathan will act as chief presenter of “Muhammadu Buhari: The Authorised Biography” at a public unveiling in Abuja on Thursday, 19 November 2026, with President Bola Tinubu slated to attend as guest of honour.
Engr Suleiman Adamu, chairman of the planning committee and a former minister of water resources, announced the details at a press conference on Wednesday. The ceremony will be chaired by former Niger Republic President Mahamadou Issoufou, and the three‑volume set will feature forewords by Issoufou, former Nigerian heads of state General Yakubu Gowon and General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
“We are deliberately seeking to make the occasion broader than a gathering of political associates. Muhammadu Buhari was a partisan political actor during important periods of his life, but his biography belongs to the historical record of Nigeria,” Adamu said.
The authorised biography was compiled with Buhari’s extensive personal participation through sustained interviews and years of documentary research. Volume 1, “Buhari: The Phenomenon,” traces his early life, military career, tenure as military head of state and his long opposition journey to the 2015 presidential victory. Volume 2, “Buhari: The Presidency,” examines his eight‑year rule from 2015 to 2023, while Volume 3, “Buhari: The Reckoning,” assesses his record on the economy, security, infrastructure, foreign affairs, anti‑corruption, institutional reform and social policy.
“We regard it as important that universities, libraries, research institutions, military and security institutions, public agencies, diplomatic missions and other repositories of national memory acquire the volumes and make them available to students, researchers and future generations. We invite Nigerians to approach these volumes with curiosity rather than with predetermined conclusions,” Adamu added.
<small>Source: Vanguard News — read the original story there.</small>
