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The Presidency last night told Nigerians to expect fresh onslaught against insurgency from the newly appointed Service Chiefs.

“They will bring fresh ideas, fresh value and fresh energy0 to the Security challenge. It will be a fresh onslaught,” Presidential Media Adviser Femi Adesina said last night, speaking on national television.

Adesina said President Muhammadu Buhari took “the action at right time.”

“He is not unmindful to the calls by Nigerians over the year for new Service Chiefs”, he said, adding that Nigerians believe insurgency in the Northeast should end, the military want it to end.”

Adesina urged Nigerians to “pray for our troops,” instead of constantly criticizing the military.

On how the Presidential made the appointment, he said the President told Nigerians in 2018 that he went through the files of top military chiefs to pick the last set of Service Chiefs.

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He said this process of appointment of these new Service Chiefs did not depart from the process he used in 2015.

The Presidential adviser also cautioned against imputing ethnicity into military appointments, saying  “only fit and proper” Nigerians can be appointed.”

He added: ”The President knew the time to do it and I believe the time has come and that is why it has been done. I don’t think it is a matter of right or wrong. It is just a matter of doing what is best for the country at the best time.”