Nobody is planning any coup against President Buhari- Nigeria Army says
The
Nigerian Army has released a statement refuting claims by some Nigeria Delta
militants that the military was planning a coup to take over the Buhari led
government. Some Niger Delta militants under the aegis of Joint Niger Delta
Liberation Force (JNDLF) yesterday alleged that some officers of the Nigerian
Army approached them for support to overthrow our duly elected present
democratic government. Read the Nigerian Army statement below...
The attention of the
Nigerian Army has been drawn to another campaign of calumny and distraction by
faceless criminal gang of economic saboteurs that hide under the aegis of Joint
Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF) alleging that some officers of the
Nigerian Army approached them for support to overthrow our duly elected present
democratic government. This is baseless and most unfortunate allegation that
existed in the warped minds of the originators of such weighty allegation.
The Nigerian Army wish
to state that this is not true and hereby distanced itself from this weighty
allegation. We also see this speculation as a dangerous distraction to our
effort in fighting insurgency and other criminal elements in the country. The
Nigerian Army would like to send a strong and an unequivocal warning to those
speculating a coup by the Nigerian Army (NA) against the Government to desist
forthwith. We would like state in clear terms that that we are a product of
democracy and a focused professional institution and would have nothing to do
with such abomination and heinous crime.
We wish to state further
that the NA is the greatest beneficiary of democracy and therefore cannot ever
contemplate any anti-democratic misadventure, certainly not under the command
of the present Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai.
Rather, we see this type of dangerous speculation as a declaration of war to destabilize
the present government by these unscrupulous elements. The Nigerian Army is
investigating those behind the dangerous insinuation in order to unravel the
real motive behind it.
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