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Gen LEO Irabor: Reform the Military; coordinate operations
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By Tony Eluemunor
Surprisingly, the Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is often seen as an officer who has been merely kicked upstairs to make way for, sayan Army, Air or Naval Chief of Staff. In fact, there were murmurs of disaffection when former President Shehu Shagari appointed Nigeria’s first Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Alani Akinrinade, in 1981, during the Second Republic, from Army Chief, to be the apex military coordinator, and appointed Gen. Inua Wushishi as his successor.
The recently dropped Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai, for all his failures, was decidedly more than a decorative flower vase, while he occupied that office. He forgot one important thing; that he was not the Chief of Defence Staff; General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin was.
Magnus Onyibe uses the recent appointment of former service chiefs as ambassadors as basis to focus on certain character traits of President Muhammadu Buhari
Given the pattern of events in the past six years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s stewardship as president and Commander-ln-Chief of The Armed Forces of Nigeria, it is easy to conclude that Mr. President is a Fulani irredentist and an apologist. That’s simply because the media is awash with complaints that most of those appointed into critical public offices by president Buhari have been skewed or heavily weighted in favor of the Hausa/Fulani to the exclusion of the two other major tribes (particularly the lgbo and to a lesser degree Yoruba) as well as other minority tribes numbering over 250 that make up our country .