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Muhammadu Buhari mourns deceased Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the former Soviet Union, has been referred to by President Muhammadu Buhari as "a daring reformer...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief August 31, 2022
Updated August 31, 2022 at 1:29 PM
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the former Soviet Union, has been referred to by President Muhammadu Buhari as "a daring reformer, who will be remembered for years to come because of his tremendous contributions to international peace and openness in his own previously strictly closed country."

President Buhari responded to the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday at the age of 91 by saying that the former Soviet leader was "a remarkable gentleman whose reformist agenda had fundamentally changed the Soviet society through his policy of Perestroika and Glasnost, both of which set the stage for economic and political transformation of his own country and that of others in the defunct Soviet Union."

Mr Gorbachev was in power between 1985 and 1991. He died Tuesday evening after “serious and long illness,” according to the Central Clinic Hospital in Moscow.

His emergence as the country’s leader set in motion revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and brought the cold war that had threatened the world to an end.

President Buhari explained that, “although Gorbachev’s political career was consumed by those reforms, history and posterity will be kind to him for placing the interests of the Soviet people above his own ambition.”

According to the Nigerian leader, “the impact of Gorbachev’s legacy was not limited to the former Soviet Union, but it also affected the wider world, such as his voluntary dissolution of the Warsaw Pact military alliance in pursuit of permanent peace in the world.”

President Buhari said “we cannot forget in a hurry how Gorbachev advocated for the destruction of nuclear weapons by both the former Soviet Union and the United States during his meeting with Ronald Reagan.”

The President added that, “although Gorbachev died without achieving his dream of a nuclear-free world, his genuine commitment to durable international peace and security would never be forgotten.”

Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
August 31, 2022
Tags: Nigeria

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