The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement on Thursday that the Army would investigate the allegation that there was a plot by the service to overthrow President Buhari's administration and unravel the motive behind the claim.
He went further to say that the 'baseless and most unfortunate allegation' only existed in the minds of those who originated it. He distanced the Army from the claim describing it as a distraction to the efforts of the ervice to fight insurgency and other criminal acts in the country.
Usman described the allegation as a declaration of war against the current administration by the originators of the claim.
In today's Punch, it was written, “The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to another campaign of calumny and distraction by a faceless criminal gang of economic saboteurs that hide under the aegis of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force alleging that some officers of the Nigerian Army approached them for support to overthrow our duly elected present democratic government.
“This is a 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.”
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