is the first commander-in-chief since the advent of the Fourth Republic not to have a retired military officer in his cabinet.
The last time that a non-military officer occupied that position in a substantive position was in 1993 when Ismaila Gwarzo served as NSA during the Ernest Shonekan interregnum. It is also explained that it was because of his efforts that otherwise defenders of democracy like Professor Wole Soyinka who were quick to rebuke President and Mrs Goodluck Jonathan have kept mum in the face of even more salacious slips of the Tinubu presidency.
So it is against this background of the assumed antipathy towards retired military officers that we now observe the recent filial solidarity between the Tinubu presidency and the military. It is wrenching that it is under a commander-in-chief with glorious accolades in the camp of the pro-democracy movement that we are witnessing the saddening violations of human and democratic rights in Okuama.