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Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari,
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and principal officers of the National
Assembly were conspicuously absent when officers and men of the
Presidential Brigade of Guards held a special parade to mark President
Muhammadu Buhari’s 74th birthday on Saturday.
The parade which was held at the
forecourt of the President’s office inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja
was attended by a few ministers, presidential aides and service chiefs.
The brief event also featured the
inspection of quarter guard, inspection of the guard of honour, silent
drill display, signing of a birthday register, cutting of the birthday
cake and the traditional release of pigeons to signal peace.
Giant birthday cards were also presented to the President at the strictly military event.
In an interview with State House
correspondents, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gabriel Olonishakin, said,
“We are celebrating the birthday of the President and we wish him well
and good health. We wish him all the goodness of God as he pilots the
affairs of our nation to greater heights.”
Those in attendance included the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal; Chief of
Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali;
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello; and Minister
of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, among others.
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