Nigeria army chief Lt. Gen Taoreed Lagbaja said Tuesday the military will not participate in any coup to overthrow President Bola Tinubu.
The Chief of Army Staff who was speaking at the opening ceremony of the COAS Combined 2nd and 3rd Quarters Conference, said the clamour from young Nigerians for the army to overthrow a democratically elected government was out of place, adding that the days of military rule in Nigeria were long gone.
“The Nigerian Army will not allow itself to be used to undemocratically sail some interests to power. As the Service that received the most image bashing as a fallout of previous military interventions in Nigeria.
“The Nigerian Army is not to losing the new prestige it has painstakingly built in the past 25 years, secure, and united,” Lagbaja said.
Lagbaja noted that the Nigerian Army and its sister services have continued to receive support from the government at both the national and sub-national levels as shown in the recent purchase of 2 BELL UH-1 Huey Helicopters equipped with advanced sensors and enablers to conduct a range of missions, including reconnaissance, surveillance, logistics and medical evacuation, among other functions.
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