The President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari is set to drop the General title from the 29th of May when he takes over power. This is according to the statement from his directorate of Media and Publicity. Read it below
“From May 29, 2015, the President-elect and Vice-President-elect are to be respectively known and addressed as Muhammadu Buhari, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria”