The Presidency on
Saturday said Nigeria’s military hierarchy did not treat President Muhammadu
Buhari well during the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan as president of the country.
The Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Mr. Garba Shehu, in
a Facebook post, described the military’s action as shameless.
In the run
in of the March 28 presidential election, the Nigerian military claimed that it
did not have the record of President Buhari’s West African Examination Council
result.
Reacting to
online criticisms against Buhari for receiving some vehicles from the embattled
ex-National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Shehu stated that the President was
entitled to what he received.
“Cars are
just a few in a litany of entitlements written in that law, although it is
contestable to say that General Buhari had been given his due entitlements by
successive administrations as provided thereunder. Regime after regime treated
him as if he was not a former Head of State.
“The
military in particular treated him so badly that its leaders kept silent when
the PDP charged that he didn’t have WAEC papers. One shameless Army Records
officer said the former Head of State had no records at all under their
system.”
Shehu added
that Buhari went without a full complement of armed guards from the Army until
the April bomb attack on his convoy.
“It was at
this time that the Chief of Army Staff (at that time) thought it necessary to
reinstate the armed convoy to protect him. When they brought the two cars
within a few days of his being bombed, the staff of the General were merely
informed that this was from the Federal Government in fulfillment of its
obligation to him,” he said.
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