chiefs not based on federal character
The Presidency has said the appointment of service chiefs is not subject to federal character principle and ethnic balancing.
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, stated this in a televised interview today. Adesina insisted that security should not be subjected to politics but competence, noting that his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari has the prerogative to appoint those he feels are competent and can do the job of securing Nigeria against terrorist attacks.
He added that Security is something based on the best and the brightest, because all needed is for the country to be secured.