It is becoming clearer by the day that the majority of
Nigerian military personnel were fed-up with President Muhammadu Buhari’s
insistence on retaining the former Service Chiefs.
On Tuesday, Buhari, after years of looking the other way
despite the worrisome level of insecurity in the country, removed the quartet.
The Nigerian leader appointed them in July 2015, barely two
months after assuming office.
They were Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi
Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff,
Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
The replacements are Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of
Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral A.
Z. Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; Air-Vice Marshal I. O. Amao, Chief of Air
Staff.
In a video, soldiers, at an undisclosed location, danced and
fired shots in celebration of the removal of the former security heads.
There was similar jubilation at a Naval facility.
It was gathered that officers and men of the Armed
Forces were delighted that the ex-military heads were substituted after 66
months.
Rufai Hanga, a former Senator, stated that Buhari refused to
remove them because he was afraid of a coup.
Olonisakin, Buratai, Ibas and Abubakar were all already due
for retirement but Buhari kept them in office.
Owing to his stance, many senior officers exited the service
without attaining higher ranks.
Members of the 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd and 33rd
Regular Course (RC) were affected.
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