New COAS: President Buhari chose national interest above ethnic sentiments – Minister of Defence, Salishi Magashi, says

The Minister of Defence, Main Common Salihi Magashi, has mentioned that opposite to public opinion, the appointment of Main Common Farouk Yahaya because the Chief of Military Workers, President was primarily based on nationwide curiosity and never on ethnic and spiritual sentiments.

President Buhari on Thursday, Might 28, introduced the appointment of Yahaya as the brand new Military chief to take over from Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a airplane crash on Friday Might 21.

Yahaya is from Zamfara State and a member of the 35 Common Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy.

The Minister in an announcement by his Particular Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mohammad Abdulkadri, described the brand new Military Chief as “an natural infantry Common who’s examined and trusted to actualise the nationwide aspirations to revive peace at nighttime spots areas of insurgency, kidnapping and banditry in addition to other allied threats to the nation’s company existence.”

In keeping with the assertion,

“The Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) has recommended the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari for the properly thought out Strategic appointment of Main Common Farouk Yahaya, the twenty second Chief of Military Workers as a substitute for the late Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a airplane crash alongside ten others final Friday in Kaduna.

The appointment of Common Yahaya, President Buhari has expediently put nationwide curiosity above ethnic and spiritual chauvinism by fulfilling all necessities obligatory.

These embrace his unblemished observe information of service, Skilled, Command and Operational competences amongst different yardsticks that culminated into his emergence as most suitably certified new Military boss.

The Defence Minister expressed optimism within the skilled pedigree of the previous theatre Commander Operation “Hadin Kai”, Common Yahaya, in sustaining the trajectory of taking offensive and aggressive campaigns to the camps, corridors and cells of the adversaries with a view to obliterating them.

Whereas pledging the support of the Ministry of Defence under his watch to the brand new Military boss in finishing up his mandate, the minister mentioned plans are within the pipeline by the Federal Authorities to immortalise late Common Attahiru and others who died within the airplane crash.