Major Gen. Farouk Yahaya’s Appointment As COAS Means A Large Cream Of Competent Officers Will Have To Go
The Oasis Reporters
May 29, 2021
As President Muhammadu Buhari appoints a new Chief of Army Staff in replacement for the late COAS, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru , analysts have been speculating on the majority of competent officers who statutorily have to bow out from service, because their junior has become Army Chief.
The new #COAS, Gen. Yahaya, is of the cohort of RC 37. There are, I believe, a good many members of RC 35 & 36 still in service, in the double digits
A country in need of experienced Generals finds itself dispensing with the most experienced at a time it needs them most? pic.twitter.com/n0oJVn43p1
— Chidi Odinkalu (@ChidiOdinkalu) May 27, 2021
The media got this message that establishes tradition that 1 Division of the Nigerian Army’s General Officer Commanding (GOC) in Kaduna could stand a good fighting chance of emerging as COAS in the face of any vacancy.
“PRESIDENT BUHARI APPOINTS NEW CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF
The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff.
Prior to his appointment Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the incumbent Theatre Commander of the Counter terrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit in the North East code named Operation HADIN KAI.
Please disseminate this information to the general public through your news medium.
Thank you for your cooperation.
ONYEMA NWACHUKWU
Brigadier General
Acting Director Defence Information
27 May 2021.
Meanwhile, the war against insurgency in the north east and banditry in other parts, continue.
