Coup d’ etat rumours unfounded – Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh
Against the backdrop of security challenges confronting the country and insinuations making the rounds of a possible coup d’ etat, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, Tuesday, dismissed as untenable, such rumours, insisting that the military would do everything to defend democracy and its growth in Nigeria. Speaking when he received the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency, Mike Omeri, in his office, Badeh said: “Rumours in some quarters of a possible coup d’état in the country are unfounded.”Affirming the commitment of the Nigerian military to the defence of the nation’s democracy, the CDS noted that “as an arm of democracy, the military as a professional group has no option but to love Nigeria and do those things that will ensure security and protection of lives within the nation.”
