Lucky Irabor, chief of defence staff, says the personnel of
the Nigerian armed forces are not contemplating undertaking a coup.
Irabor spoke on Friday at a virtual media chat tagged ‘Open
Ears Dialogue’.
He said the armed forces will continue to educate its
personnel that coups do “more harm than good”.
“The armed forces of Nigeria have nothing whatsoever to do
with anything that has to do with coup. We have learned our lessons over the
years and we have come to our conclusion that coups will do us more harm than
good,” he said.
“And so this is what
the leadership of the armed forces is passing down the chain, and educating
everyone under our command that there is no reason whatsoever for anyone to
contemplate that.”
He asked politicians to desist from luring armed forces
members into political matters, saying the military should be insulated from
any political persuasions or inclinations.
“And in the same vein, the leadership of the armed forces is
also telling politicians to leave us alone, do not mix us up with issues that
have to do with politics and do not use political inclinations and persuasions
to want to lure anybody from the armed forces into the idea of having to
undertake coups and all,” he said.
“We will not. That’s
the reason why perhaps the discussions you may have been having in the media,
we have been insulated from such discussions because they already know our
viewpoint in this regard.”
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