Tinubu: We’ll resist any coup attempt

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday called on the military to perish any attempt to lure it to stage a coup against the democratic process, vowing that such attempt would be vehemently resisted.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, recently said some military officers were hobnobbing with politicians, allegedly to overthrow the present democratically elected government.

But speaking at a special session organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly to mark the Lagos@50 celebrations and the second anniversary of the 8th Assembly, Tinubu advised those behind the said attempt, to perish such idea “in their best interest.”

A statement signed by Habib Aruna, the Chief Press Secretary to the Lagos State governor, quoted Tinubu as saying, “I will like to sound a caution to us all that the precious thing we have - democracy - that we are now trying to perfect is not guaranteed to us. We must sweat hard, yet think wisely if we are to keep it. There will always be some people who want to undermine democracy. These people gain more from the government in the dark.”

The Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, said since creation, the state had been “a shining example and critical hub of socio-economic and political development.”