Buhari nominates Buratai, other ex-service chiefs as ambassadors

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Buhari and the ex-service chiefs

President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated immediate-past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors-designate.

Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad disclosed this in a tweet on Thursday.

“President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past Service Chiefs to the Senate as non-career Ambassadors-Designate,” he tweeted.

He identified the ex-service chiefs whose names were forwarded to the legislature as former Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin (Rtd); former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (Rtd), former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd), and former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (Rtd).

Ahmad added that the name of Air Vice Marshal Mohammed S Usman (Rtd), the immediate-past Chief of Defence Intelligence was also forwarded to the Senate.

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Their nomination came nine days after their replacement as the head of various branches of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

 

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