Buhari said "America made me"
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, bu...