The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday summoned top commanders of the service to the Army headquarters for an emergency security meeting especially on the recent allegation that some top officers of the service approached a militant group to solicit support to topple the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration, Punch reports.
The meeting which held under the chairmanship of Buratai was attended by the general officers commanding the seven divisions of the Nigerian Army, the Principal Staff Officers and Operational Commanders across the country.
The General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Army, Kaduna, Maj. Gen Adeniyi Oyebade who briefed the media after the meeting said that the Army had taken a decision long ago at the beginning of the Fourth Republic to abide by its code of conduct.
He assured Nigerians that there would be no coup in the Army and indeed the whole of the nation’s Armed Forces.