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Deji Elumoye
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new Aide-De-Camp in the person of Lt. Col. YM Dodo, a development, which emerged Saturday.
With this, however, Buhari made a significant change in his personal security architecture.
His appointment, it gathered, followed the exit of the former ADC, Col. ML Abubakar, who has gone for a promotion course.
A source that revealed this insisted that contrary to insinuations, Abubakar was not sacked but exited the position to attend the course that is required for him to go to his next rank of a one-star general.
Abubakar has held one of the most difficult but influential positions in the country as the closest aide to the president since May 2015, when he was appointed.
TODAY
January 30, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Aide-De-Camp (ADC), Colonel Mohammed Lawal Abubakar, has been nominated to attend a five months Strategic and Defence Course at Santiago Chile (from 8 March – 30 July 2021).
The course is a prerequisite for his next promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General in the last quarter 2021 and posting outside the shores of the country as a Defence Attache/Adviser in keeping with the customs and tradition of recognising Officers that served as Aide-De- Camp to the President and concluded tour of duty without any blemish.
Abubakar, who will by the end of February, be the longest-serving ADC to a civilian president (having served in that position for almost six years), and the second longest-serving ADC in the history of Armed Forces of Nigeria after late Colonel Walbe who served General Yakubu Gowon for nine (9) years.