The Defence Headquarters has dismissed the report that there’s a plot by some military officers to disrupt the forthcoming general elections.
The Acting Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
The defence spokesman added that the Armed Forces of Nigeria was dismayed that even politically exposed persons had denigrated themselves into joining the agents of destabilisation.
He said that those behind the report claimed that military officers met with a presidential candidate with the aim of disrupting the general elections and setting the country on fire.
According to him, the purveyors of the propaganda also indicated that a so-called Thursday meeting is plotting a Coup d’etat to establish unconstitutional order.
The defence spokesman said those who made the false claims were agents of destabilisation and were seeking violence so as to heighten tension in the polity, vowing that they…
