page_title: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Turai Yar'Adua, the then First Lady of Nigeria, at the IAEA 53rd General Conference in Vienna, Austria
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.
caption: First Lady Turai Yar'Adua.
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