Shortly after the August 1983 military coup that brought a 40-year-old Muhammadu Buhari to power, he received a phone call from a top personnel in the United States Army.  General Smith was the Commandant of the U.S. War College from which Buhari graduated in 1980. The school’s 1979 set had graduated its first Nigerian, General Wushishi, who was the Chief of Defence in the just ousted Shehu   government.

Please, be kind to him,” General Smith said over the phone. The essence of the phone call was not just to congratulate Nigeria’s new Head of State, but to ensure that the first Nigerian to graduate from the U.S. War College would not suffer any indignity under the government of the second Nigerian to graduate from the same school.
Former classmates
On Wednesday, July 22, members of the U.S. War College Class of 1980 gathered at the Blair House in Washington, DC, to welcome the man they had selected as their football team referee 36 years ago. “Being referee all those years ago taught me to be fair and just,” President Buhari said during the meeting.
Among the former classmates gathered were Lt. General Granrud (Commander of the U.S. forces   in Japan Rtd), Brigadier General Jack Pellica, General Ronald Griffith (Former Vice Chairman of the U.S. army central command ), Colonel Lany Gordon and Colonel Paul Summerville. General Smith has since passed on, as have all the directing staff and a larger percentage of the old students from the set. “This just shows that all of us are on the queue,” President Buhari said, “waiting for our turn.”
The Nigerian Commander-in-Chief said he hoped that the U.S. would continue its tradition of training Nigerians in the war college. At the time he attended the school, he was the only African in his class. The only other foreigners were from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, France and Japan. The Japanese student went on to become the head of his country’s army.
President Buhari then went on to update his classmates on his life since he last saw them: his different appointments, his accomplishments and his family.  “I have just received my 13th grandchild,” he said.
He added that the wife they knew him with at the time had since died, and that he had also lost a son and a daughter from his new wife.  “Of all my eight children,” he said, “only one is a boy.” Some of his former classmates were curious to know if President Buhari would place his only son, Yusuf, in the army.
“I stopped him from joining the army,” President Buhari replied.
He explained that the military he joined was very different from what it is today, adding that he was the second Nigerian to be sent to the U.S. War College—based on his records alone, without connections. “Things took a wrong turn in Nigeria,” he said. “Your records no longer mattered.”
Some of the former classmates present at the meeting stated that at the time they met President Buhari back in 1980, they knew little about Nigeria or Africa. They credited the Nigerian leader with giving them their initial enlightenment about the continent. Others recalled how he always overworked himself.
However, President Buhari described   his war college experience as being responsible for his subsequent life of hard work, endurance and perseverance. “I contested for president three times and failed,” he said. “Then I did it the fourth time and won.” A roar of laughter followed the president’s apt illustration.
He then rendered his narrative of the collapse of the Soviet Union, breaking into 18 republics and how that influenced his decision to join politics.
“The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1980 without a single shot being fired convinced that the multi-party democratic system was the best for all countries.”
President Buhari then expressed appreciation to President Barack Obama and to the U.S. for the role the country played in Nigeria’s successful elections, recalling Secretary of State, John Kerry’s visit to him and to former president Goodluck Jonathan, as well as to Attahiru Jega, the electoral commissioner at the time.
Electoral commissioner
“Kerry read the riot act to all of us,” he said, “saying that the conduct of the election must be free, fair and in line with the Constitution.”  He added that, without US intervention, the electoral malpractices of the past   twelve years would likely have happened again. “God made me but America made me,” he said.
The Class of 1980 gave President Buhari the full assurances of their support, stating that they were willing to use their experience to assist him in any way they can, particularly with tackling terrorism in northeast Nigeria. They promised to put together and forward to him a compendium of their thoughts on the security situation in Nigeria.
In September, President Buhari will be meeting once again with his former classmates, at another event scheduled to take place at the United Nations.
Garba is the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/how-god-us-made-me-buhari/

Sai baba

And me too lols...someone help this man need brain,though he got the change but seriously just as brainless as him,#MADEINUSA

Was this speech written and prepared before his 'conjugal visit'?......cos this sounds like cheap appeal to pity
Sorry Baba, this 'credit' would not change Leahy's law!!!!

We know that God made it so but shey na US voted for you in Naija.

nawao. ogonogo akuko

misleading title

The peoples general! where are the people that said; PMB did not have certificate?

To God be the glory

Dis Man Gat Class

Imortal001:
The peoples general! where are the people that said; PMB did not have certificate?

dear I doubt not ,he have certificate but not brain

Excuse ,nigeria made me from my accent u will know atleast will understand US made buhari from his accent

“God made me but America made me,”


Buhari oooooooooo

JoSaintiago:
dear I doubt not ,he have certificate but not brain

If buhari has no brain, then tell me how he manage to get the certificate?

Western Education is not a sin then !!!

Imortal001:
The peoples general! where are the people that said; PMB did not have certificate?

has he gotten the certificate now? if yes, present it. you can go to sch and even be a course rep without graduating with a cert.

Imortal001:

If buhari has no brain, then tell me how he manage to get the certificate?

u dnt even understand,buhari pass through secondary school and failed most of his subject atleast dat failure was given to him as certificate.but wait do u think buhari have certificate the way he reason?

That was why you went to report to your master Obama

JoSaintiago:
u dnt even understand,buhari pass through secondary school and failed most of his subject atleast dat failure was given to him as certificate.but wait do u think buhari have certificate the way he reason?

But that does not change the fact that buhari is the president of the federal republic of Nigeria.

JoSaintiago:
u dnt even understand,buhari pass through secondary school and failed most of his subject atleast dat failure was given to him as certificate.but wait do u think buhari have certificate the way he reason?

What i know is that buhari has good leadership quality than that your phd holder called jonathan.

nnachukz:
has he gotten the certificate now? if yes, present it. you can go to sch and even be a course rep without graduating with a cert.

Election fever still dey worry you, i'm wishing you quick recovery!