Buhari: Why I appointed Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army staff.
President Muhammadu Buhari said the appointment of Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff was well deserved having passed through the ranks and emerging a former Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole.
He said this on Arise TV in an interview on Thursday.
“They trained in Zaria or Abeokuta, they come through the ranks and because they served under all the circumstances, the crises and everything and they gradually rise to the status.
“And you think, you will just pick somebody just to balance up.
“These positions have to be earned. There are people who have been there for 10 to 15 years,” he said.
The president, who expressed the hope that Nigerians would be fair to him while assessing his administration, also urged them to question previous regimes on what they did with the nation’s humongous earnings.
