Mrs. Fati Attahiru, wife of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, and his family, boycotted the National Awards ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday over President, Muhammadu Buhari failure to invite them to receive the national honours award on Attahiru’s behalf.
The late Chief of Army Staff was among the 13 persons listed to be honoured posthumously by the President.
Attahiru, who was posthumously awarded Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic, died alongside 10 other senior military officers in the Nigerian Air Force’s Beechcraft aircraft fatal crash in Kaduna on May 21, 2021.
Sources close to the family confirmed to correspondents that neither Attahiru’s widow nor any member of his family got an invitation or an official notification to attend the ceremony for such an honour.
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