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Buhari said "America made me"

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While speaking at his  U.S. War College  reunion during his recent trip to America, President  Muhammadu Buhari  stated, that God made him, but America also made him. According to  ThisDay , Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu , wrote the article below to emphasize that “US as the architect of his (Buhari’s) presidency sits well within reason.” Here is the article: Shortly after the August 1983 military coup that brought a 40-year-old Muhammadu Buhari to power, he received a phone call from top personnel in the United States Army. General Smith was the Commandant of the U.S. War College from which General Buhari graduated in 1980. The school’s 1979 set had graduated its first Nigerian, General Wushishi, who was the Chief of Defence in the just ousted Shehu government. “Please, be kind to him,” General Smith said over the phone. The essence of the phone call was not just to congratulate Nigeria’s new Head of State, but to ensure that the fir

Di Maria welcomed to PSG

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has backed Paris Saint-Germain’s widely reported move for Manchester United midfielder Angel Di Maria. The Sweden international has played in the French capital for the last three years and would be keen to team up with Di Maria at the Parc des Princes. Despite a good start, the Argentine struggled in his first year at Old Trafford but Ibrahimovic is convinced he would improve the French champions. “I don’t know if it is done but of course if you get a chance to play with Di Maria, it is a fantastic thing. The guy has won everything. He is a fantastic player who plays for the team,” he is quoted as saying in the  Irish Times .