Military High Command Warns Politicians, Personnel Against Coup 

BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – The Nigerian Military High Command has warned those it described as “misguided politicians” who nurse the inordinate ambition to rule Nigeria outside the ballot box to banish such thoughts,

It said that the military under the current leadership remain resolute in the defence of Nigeria’s Democracy and its growth.

This is as the Defence Headquarters declared it shall continue to remain apolitical, subordinate to the Civil Authority, firmly loyal to the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and the 1999 Constitution as Amended.

The Defence Headquarters which stated these in a statement by its Acting Director of Information, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu while reacting to a statement purported to have been made by Robert Clark SAN, who suggested that current political leadership should hand over power to the military for the purpose of restructuring, said it is dissociating itself from such “anti-democratic” utterance and position.

It further said; “Let it be stated categorically that the Armed Forces of Nigeria remain fully committed to the present Administration and all associated democratic institutions.

“We shall continue to discharge our constitutional responsibilities professionally, especially in protecting the country’s democracy, defence of the territorial integrity of the country as well as protection of lives and properties of citizens.

“We also wish to remind all military personnel that it is treasonable to even contemplate this illegality. The full wrath of the law will be brought to bear on any personnel found to collude with people having such agenda,” the Defence Headquarters said.

It also said that the current security challenges are not insurmountable, adding that the Armed Forces of Nigeria in partnership with other security Agencies are working assiduously to ameliorate the challenge.

It concluded by saying; “Nigeria will know peace again. PLEASE BE WARNED!”