President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why his only son Yusuf didn’t join Nigerian Armed Forces as his father retired Army General.

      Garba Shehu, presidential media aide, has written an article in which he spoke about the meeting between President Buhari and his former classmates in the US.


Shehu wrote: “Shortly after the August 1983 military coup that brought a 40-year-old Muhammadu Buhari to power, he received a phone call from a 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.