President Muhammadu Buhari has given reasons why he has not not changed the service chiefs. Buhari in an interview on Arise TV Monday night said that “the head [him] has to be very careful on removal of the service chiefs because you don’t know [the] ambition of the ones coming up.” Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonishakin (l) with other Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police among the guests during the Special National Honours Investiture to commemorate the new Democracy Day at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida.
“My understanding of security is that, when you have a case of emergency, you have to be careful, with tampering with the head of services. This is again one of my personal experiences. I have been a governor, I have been a minister, I have been a head of state, I came back, I tried to come back to this office three times but lucky on the fourth time,” Buhari said.
