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Buhari Mourns Gorbachev, Says He Was a Courageous Reformer

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned leader of former Soviet Union, Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, describing him as, “a courageous reformer who will be remembered for years to come because of his immeasurable contributions to world peace and openness in his own once rigidly closed society.”

Reacting to the death of Gorbachev at 91 on Tuesday, Buhari, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, said, “the late Gorbachev 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.”

He stressed that, although Gorbachev’s political career was consumed by those reforms, history and posterity would be kind to him for placing the interests of the Soviet people above his own ambition.

According to him, “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.”

Buhari added: “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.”

He 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.

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