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Buhari Drops ‘General’ From His Name From May 29

The Official Portrait of Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
The Official Portrait of Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo

President Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has announced that as from May 29 when he assumes office as President, he would drop the title, ‘General’ from his name.
A statement from his Media team today, signed by the Director in the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the President-Elect, Mallam Garba Shehu also released the official portrait of the President elect and his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
The one paragraph statement reads: “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 Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria.” [myad]

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