Bashir Magashi, minister of defence, says President Muhammadu Buhari considered national interest above ethnicity in the appointment of Faruk Yahaya as the new chief of army staff.
The president had appointed Yahaya, a major-general, on Thursday to replace Ibrahim Attahiru, the army chief who died in a plane crash.
Before his appointment, Yahaya was the theatre commander of the counter-terrorism military outfit in the north-east which is code-named operation Hadin Kai.
Some critics had accused the president of been biased with the appointment. But Magashi, in a…
