page_title: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
section_title: Presidency
hierarchical_section_title: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua / Presidency
caption_attribution_description: (left to right): Alpha Oumar Konaré of Mali, head of the African Union, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Ghana president John Kufuor, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, German chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, South African president Thabo Mbeki, Russian president Vladimir Putin, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Senegal president Abdoulaye Wade, EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso, and Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua.
context_page_description: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who was the President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010. He was declared the winner of the controversial Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007.
  He previously served as the Governor of Katsina from 1999 to 2007; and was a member of the People's Democratic Party. In 2009, Yar'Adua left for Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for pericarditis. He returned to Nigeria on 24 February 2010, where he died on 5 May.
context_section_description: After the election, Yar'Adua proposed a government of national unity. In late June 2007, two opposition parties, the ANPP and the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), agreed to join Yar'Adua's government.
caption: At the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 (Yar'Adua at the very right)
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