{"id":76901,"date":"2025-10-19T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76901"},"modified":"2025-10-19T05:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:31:16","slug":"dhq-denies-coup-plot-clarifies-independence-parade-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/19\/dhq-denies-coup-plot-clarifies-independence-parade-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"DHQ Denies Coup Plot, Clarifies Independence Parade Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has dismissed reports alleging that Nigeria\u2019s 65th Independence Anniversary celebrations were cancelled due to an attempted coup plot, describing the claims as false, malicious, and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, and titled \u201cDHQ Never Mentioned Any Coup Attempt,\u201d the military urged Nigerians to disregard the online report, which it said was aimed at creating tension and distrust in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cancellation of the 65th Independence Anniversary parade was to enable the President attend a strategic bilateral meeting outside the country and to allow the Armed Forces sustain the momentum in the fight against terrorism, insurgency, and banditry,\u201d the statement clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Gusau explained that the ongoing investigation of 16 officers mentioned in the report was a routine internal process to uphold discipline and professionalism within the ranks, adding that an investigative panel had been constituted and its findings would be made public.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming the military\u2019s loyalty to the Constitution and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the DHQ called on Nigerians to ignore the falsehood and continue to support the security agencies in safeguarding the nation\u2019s peace and democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has dismissed reports alleging that Nigeria\u2019s 65th Independence Anniversary celebrations were cancelled due to an attempted coup plot, describing the claims as false, malicious, and misleading. In a statement signed by the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, and titled \u201cDHQ Never Mentioned Any Coup Attempt,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76901","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76903,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76901\/revisions\/76903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}