"I had no parents.I did not know my father" - Buhari reveals

President Muhammadu Buhari made the admission that he was raised as an orphan.

At the APC campaign rally in Damaturu, Yobe State, on Tuesday, January 10, the president claimed that he had no idea who his father was and that he had attended a boarding school for nine years in order to obtain an education that qualified him to join the Nigerian Army. 

Addressing the crowd in Hausa, Buhari said: "Make sure you send your children to school and make them understand that whatever you have in this world can be taken away from you except the knowledge you have in your head."

He added: ‘"I was an orphan; I did not know my father. I spent nine years in a boarding school and because of [my] education, I was enlisted into the Nigerian Army."

He continued: "I want you to strengthen your faith, try your best to uphold the children and family God has entrusted to you. Do not betray that trust."