Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect, says he no longer wants to be addressed by his military appellation of ‘General’ upon assumption of office as president on May 29.
Garba Shehu, head of the directorate of media and publicity of the Buhari campaign organisation, made this known on Sunday while unveiling the official portrait of Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo, the vice-president-elect.
On his part, Osinbajo would love to be addressed as ‘Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria’.
“From May 29, 2015 the president-elect and vice-president-elect are to be respectively known and addressed as Muhammadu Buhari, president, commander-in-chief of the armed forces federal republic of Nigeria and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, vice-president, Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Garba said in a brief statement.
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Buhari rose to the rank of a major-general in the Nigerian army before his retirement in 1985 after he was overthrown in a coup.
