The Nigeria army has denied ever meeting with the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to truncate the 2023 general elections.
All Progressives Congress propagandist and former Minister for Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode had alleged that Atiku met with some military officers to hatch a plan to subvert the country’s democracy, but acting director for defence information, Brigadier-General Tukur Gusau said such remarks were: “wicked and very malicious propaganda indicated that a so-called Thursday meeting plotted a Coup d’etat to establish unconstitutional order.
“Politically exposed persons can denigrate themselves into joining agents of destabilisation and violence in making false claims just to heighten tension in the polity
“Those who engage in fabricating and spreading unfounded misinformation will be invited by the appropriate law enforcement agencies to substantiate their claims.
“The Armed Forces of Nigeria will never be part of any ignoble plot to truncate our hard-earned democracy,” the statement added.