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President Muhammadu Buhari has consoled with the Buratai family over the death of Alhaji Yusuf Buratai, father of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai. The President's condolence message was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina. The statement described the deceased as an ex-service man and veteran of World War II.

The statement reads in part;


"Buratai’s years of service to the nation epitomised by courage, skill, determination and devotion has been rightly bequeathed to his son, who is diligently serving the country’’.


The Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Kukasheka had announced the death of Alhaji Yusuf Burarai. He disclosed that the father of the COAS, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, died Friday morning in Maiduguri.

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