The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has said the Nigerian army has no plans to truncate the nation’s nascent democracy.
He said the nation’s democracy has come to stay contrary to calls on the military to topple the government following the present hardship.
The COAS stated this while declaring open the seminar of the Army Headquarters Department of Military Secretary holding in Abuja.
He said the Nigerian Army will continue to defend the constitution and not suspend it for whatever reason.
He added that it was the duty of “our elected leaders to lead while the military does its job as enshrined in our constitution”.
He therefore urged officers and soldiers of the Nigerian army to remain professional and be above board as they discharge their constitutional duties.
Gen Lagbaja, reiterated that the Nigerian army remains the agent of democracy. “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’s choice of democracy as the preferred system of governance.
“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,” he said.
