The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, is to drop the title ‘General’ from his name after he is sworn in on May 29,2015.
His media team disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday, May 17, in Abuja.
The statement signed by, Mallam Garba Shehu, Buhari’s director of media and publicity, also released the official portraits 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 Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The official portrait of the president-elect Muhammadu Buhari
The official portrait of the vice president-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo
“We Africans we have respect for our elders. So if they removed the General from his name. Then we will call him as Baba Muhammad Buhari,” Umaru Danlami Adamu wrote.
“Correction to Mallam Shehu Umar. The General’s name wouldn’t suppose to be Muhammadu Buhari alone, it deserves to be Mallam or Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari,” Abubakr Madaki suggested.
“An anticipated clarification. We as his fans will start right away. We are suggesting AMB (Alh Muhammadu Buhari)”, Muhammad Tanko Baba wrote.
“I like simplicity. How many of the British or American presidents use those empty titles or didn’t they go to school? ” Adetokunbo Bishop Adeeko wandered.
“Once a General, always a General, you can’t drop General’s title just like that,” David Ayele insisted.
Earlier this week Chief Timipre Sylva, the head of the All Progressives Congress transition committee ,gave new details on the swearing-in ceremony of the president-elect. He stated that Buhari’s inauguration would not be flamboyant quoting the dwindling economy as the reason for the decision.
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