The Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), has disclosed that he was among the intended targets of the recently foiled coup plot against President Bola Tinubu.
Musa made this disclosure while speaking as a guest on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, where he revealed that the conspirators planned to arrest or shoot him if he resisted.
“I was also a target, I am sure you know. I was supposed to be arrested, and if I refused, I was supposed to be shot,” the Minister said.
He also declared that the coup plotters had no capacity to execute the plan successfully saying, “But again, I think these guys were just a bunch of very unserious individuals that I really don’t know. If you look at the calibre of the individuals, I really don’t know what got into their heads to think that they could take on the armed forces like that.”
Continued: “What I even said was that even Nigerians would have fought them. Even without the armed forces, Nigerians would have stood against them. Remember how Nigerians fought against the military rule for quite some time. And that’s why Mr. President has always been one of them.
“So now, for them to think they could just wake up one morning and do that in Nigeria, I think something went wrong in there. They need to reset their brains.”
