Posted on: 05:02 Sun, 27 Dec 2015



The Presidency, Saturday claimed
that President Muhammadu Buhari
was badly treated by some military
hierarchy when Goodluck Jonathan
was in power.

The Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Publicity to the President,
Mr. Garba Shehu, who made this
disclosure via a Facebook post,
described the military’s action as
shameless.

Before 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.

“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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