Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly seeking the confirmation of Farouk Yahaya, as the new Chief of Army Staff.
President Buhari had appointed Yahaya, a Major-General as the new Chief of Army Staff on May 27 after the demise of the former COAS, Lieutenant General, Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 others in a military plane crash in Kaduna on May 21.
President Buhari’s request was in a letter sent to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and read during Tuesday’s plenary.
General Yahaya, a member of the 37th Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy, was the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, an outfit for counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in the North-East before his appointment.