Bello Matawalle, the Minister of State for Defence, has directed the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) to go after people calling for a coup d’etat in the country.
This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the ministry’s Director of Information, Press and Public Relations, Henshaw Ogubike and obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria.
Mr Matawalle described the people calling for a military coup amid the economic hardship in the country as agents of darkness.
He, therefore, warned that anyone caught doing so would not be punished.
He said, “The call for violent change of government by the military is absurd, preposterous and naïve as the military has come to reality with democratic government in Nigeria and are focused on their constitutional duty of defending the Constitution.
“The propagators calling for the truncation of the constitutional government should desist from it and face the democratic reality on ground.
“Just because criminal elements attacked a warehouse and a haulage vehicle carrying food items to other parts of the country is not enough reason for unpatriotic individuals to resort to call for military intervention which has no place in modern realities.
“The military is highly professionalised with a good Civil-Military relationship, and they are exhibiting the highest standard of professionalism with the defence of our constitution as top priority.”
The minister, therefore, urged Nigerians to support President Bola Tinubu’s administration to make Nigeria great.
