Why We Were Not Surprised Buhari Didn t Appoint A South-Easterner Ohanaeze Reacts To Appointment Of New Army Chief
“Appointing this new Chief of Army staff shows that Mr President will never appoint and involve a southerner.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 27, 2021
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said it is not surprised by the choice of President Muhammadu Buhari in appointing a Northerner as Chief of Army Staff.
Buhari had appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Yahaha will replace Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, the former Chief of Army Staff who was killed along with 10 other military officers in a plane crash in Kaduna.
Buhari appoints new Chief of Army Staff
Farouk Yahaya, a major general, replaces Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a military plane crash on May 21.
This was contained in a statement by the acting Director of Defence Information, Onyema Nwachukwu.
Mr Yahaya replaces Ibrahim Attahiru, a lieutenant general, who died in an air crash alongside 10 other officers and men of the army, last week.
Until his appointment, the new army chief was the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, the counter insurgency operation in the North-east.
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PRESIDENT BUHARI APPOINTS NEW CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF
The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
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Yahaya, a major general, will replace the deceased Attahiru Ibrahim with immediate effect.
The appointment comes six days after Attahiru and ten other military personnel died in an air crash while on an official trip to Kaduna State.
As Yahaya begins his reign as the leader of Nigerian troops, here are a few things we know about him.
The new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Faruk Yahaya was born on 5 January 1966 in Sifawa, Bodinga Local Government Area of Sokoto state.
Yahaya, a member of the 37 Regular Course of the prestigious Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), started his cadet training on 27 September 1985 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps on 22 September 1990.