{"id":78586,"date":"2025-11-12T09:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78586"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:57:27","slug":"buratai-condemns-wike-over-clash-with-military-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/12\/buratai-condemns-wike-over-clash-with-military-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Buratai Condemns Wike Over Clash With Military Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), has condemned FCT Minister Nyesom Wike for confronting a military officer during a land dispute in Abuja, describing the act as a threat to national security.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Buratai said the minister\u2019s public altercation with the soldier, captured in viral videos, was \u201can act of profound indiscipline\u201d that undermines the military\u2019s chain of command and disrespects the authority of the commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that Wike\u2019s conduct could erode troop morale and weaken institutional integrity, urging him to apologise to President Bola Tinubu and the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nation\u2019s security must come first. The integrity of our armed forces demands nothing less,\u201d Buratai stated.<\/p>\n<p>The viral confrontation between Wike and military personnel at the disputed site has continued to stir debate over civil-military relations in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), has condemned FCT Minister Nyesom Wike for confronting a military officer during a land dispute in Abuja, describing the act as a threat to national security. In a statement on Tuesday, Buratai said the minister\u2019s public altercation with the soldier, captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78586","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78588,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78586\/revisions\/78588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}