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Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), the immediate past Chief of Army Staf has revealed that the relationship between his father and President Muhammadu Buhari was what got him the appointment as the COAS.
Buratai revealed this during a gala night organized by the 29th Regular Course Association in Abuja, in his honour.
According to him, his appointment in July 2015 was a prize for the loyalty of his father, Yusuf Buratai, to Buhari.
Buratai’s father was a non-commissioned officer in the Royal West African Frontier Force and a World War II veteran who fought in Burma.
Buratai said, “My father was an ardent lover of the President and my appointment as COAS, therefore, was a price or reward for that gesture by the President. Of course, and as you have been told severally, we (the President and I) met in Njemena and he saw me and felt I was the right person to be COAS at that very crucial and critical moment of our history.