The performing Chief of Military Workers, Maj. Gen. Olufemi Oluyede will assume duties on Friday, November 1.
Oluyede was appointed by President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday pending the return of the indisposed substantive Chief of Military Workers, Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja.
His appointment got here a number of days after the Defence Headquarters said that the appointment of an Performing Chief of Military Workers was not acknowledged beneath the Harmonised Armed Forces Act.
In a press release issued by the Director of Defence Data, Brig Gen Tukur Gusau, on October 21, the DHQ clarified that no such appointment exists throughout the Armed Forces of Nigeria.
The rebuttal adopted reviews by Jackson Ude, an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, claiming that Lagbaja had died of most cancers.
Reacting to the publish on X, the Nigerian Military marked it as faux information.
Nonetheless, in a discover on Thursday signed by Group Captain Chris Erondu on behalf of the Director of Defence Data, Brig Gen Tukur Gusau, it was said that the handover ceremony could be held on the Defence Headquarters convention room at 10 am.
It learn, “The formal taking up ceremony of the newly appointed performing Chief of Military Workers, Main Normal Olufemi Oluyede is scheduled for tomorrow as follows: Date: 1 November 2024; Time: 10000hrs; Venue: DHQ Convention Room, Abuja.”
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