Nigeria: Buhari Hands Over Two Presidential Aircraft to Air Force

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The Federal Government is today handing over two additional aircrafts from the Presidential fleet to the airport, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.

Tweeting on his verified Twitter account, @NgrPresident, the President’s tweet said “Today the Presidential Air Fleet will hand over another two aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force.”

Today the Presidential Air Fleet will hand over another two aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force.

– Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) October 10, 2016

This is coming days after the Presidency decided to sell two planes from the presidential fleet. President Buhari had criticised the Nigerian Presidential fleet for being too much during campaigns before coming to power after 2015 general elections.

We’re live at the Pres Wing of the Abuja Airport, for handover of 2 Pres Fleet aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force pic.twitter.com/5Mi0McGTqW

– We ASOcial (@DigiCommsNG) October 10, 2016

The two Helicopters are part of the 10 aircraft in Presidential Air Fleet. They were acquired on 20 Oct 2014
and 21 May 2015 respectively

– We ASOcial (@DigiCommsNG) October 10, 2016

Signing the documents for the Transfer. NSA for @NGRPresident; Hon Minister of Defence on behalf of Nig Air Force pic.twitter.com/n6Wj8trNqk

– We ASOcial (@DigiCommsNG) October 10, 2016

The two AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters being handed over to the Nigerian Air Force today pic.twitter.com/bE7zh774el

– We ASOcial (@DigiCommsNG) October 10, 2016


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