25 Generals, others may be forced to retire after Farouk Yahaya replaces Attahiru as COAS

The appointment of Main Common Farouk Yahaya could result in the pressured retirement of as much as 25 Generals.

Yahaya was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the brand new Chief of Military Employees (COAS) on Thursday, to interchange Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a airplane crash in Kaduna final week.

Till his appointment, Yahaya was the Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai.

The operation was liable for counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency struggle within the North-East.

Yahaya’s emergence could, nonetheless, end result in the long run of the careers of about 25 main generals who had been of the Common Course 35 and Common Course 36 and had been his seniors, PRESS INFORMANT has learnt.

In line with army custom, the brand new COAS, who’s of Course 37 is junior to those officers and can’t superintend over them.

Yahaya can be junior to the opposite service chiefs because the Chief of Defence Employees, Common Fortunate Irabor is of Common Course 34 Consumption; Chief of Naval Employees, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo and Chief of the Air Employees, Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, each being Common Course 35 intakes.