{"id":21801,"date":"2024-03-05T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:58:44","slug":"nigerian-army-chief-denies-coup-allegations-affirms-commitment-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/05\/nigerian-army-chief-denies-coup-allegations-affirms-commitment-to-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army Chief Denies Coup Allegations, Affirms Commitment to Democracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-uxswa-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-uxswa-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col text-sm pb-9\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-68\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"78df0b08-90ca-4913-b594-5f18afcb08e8\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), dismissed reports of the military plotting to overthrow Nigeria&#8217;s democracy through a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat. Lagbaja emphasized the permanence of democracy in Nigeria, affirming that the Nigerian Army is committed to defending the constitution and will not suspend it for any reason.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing ongoing reports of a military plot to overthrow amidst economic challenges, Lagbaja asserted that elected leaders bear the responsibility of leading, while the military fulfills its designated role as outlined in the constitution. Speaking at the seminar of the Army Headquarters Department of Military Secretary in Abuja, the COAS stated, &#8220;Permit me to seize this opportunity to reiterate that the Armed Forces of Nigeria, particularly the Nigerian Army, has come to terms with the country\u2019s choice of democracy as the preferred system of governance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further emphasized, &#8220;We are therefore agents of democracy and have no desire to truncate it. The Nigerian Army will continue to defend our constitution and not suspend it for whatever reason. It is the duty of our elected leaders to lead while the military does its job as enshrined in our constitution. Nigerian Army personnel must, therefore, remain professional and be above board as they discharge their constitutional duties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), dismissed reports of the military plotting to overthrow Nigeria&#8217;s democracy through a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat. Lagbaja emphasized the permanence of democracy in Nigeria, affirming that the Nigerian Army is committed to defending the constitution and will not suspend it for any reason. Addressing ongoing reports of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[527],"class_list":["post-21801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21812,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions\/21812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}