“I was an orphan, I didn’t know my father “- President buhari reveals

President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed that he was an orphan from a young age and didn’t know his father, aso Naija gathered.

Speaking on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the APC campaign rally in Damaturu, Yobe State, the president said he didn’t know who his father was.

And, that he spent nine years in a boarding school to acquire an education that enabled him to get enlisted in the Nigerian Army.

Addressing the crowd in Hausa, Buhari said:

“Make sure you send your children to school and make them understand that whatever you have in this world can be taken away except the knowledge you have in your head.”

He added: ‘“I was an orphan; I did not know my father. I spent nine years in a boarding school.

And because of [my] education, I was enlisted into the Nigerian Army.”

Furthermore : “I want you to strengthen your faith, try your best to uphold the children and family God has entrusted to you.

Do not betray that trust.”

Muhammadu Buhari GCFR is a Nigerian politician, who has served as president of Nigeria since 2015.

Moreso,  is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the country’s military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985 after taking power in a military coup d’état.