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The Presidency made the claim on Tuesday, hours after the defence headquarters cautioned military officers against supporting any move that will lead to a coup in the country.
The warning came after Sunday’s alarm by the Department of State Service (DSS) that some people were trying to undermine the sovereignty of Nigeria.
Opposition political parties, socio-cultural groups, lawyers, academics and regional groups have given their impression on the debate amid rising tension over insecurity in the country.
What the Presidency said
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement titled: ‘Our response to DSS alert, by presidency’, said the alleged plotters are now recruiting the leadership of some ethnic groups and politicians round the country, with the intention of convening some sort of conference, where a vote of no confidence would be passed on President Buhari, thereby causing crisis in the country.
• Buhari haunted by his coup plotting past, says PDP • HURIWA: You made yourself removable due to crass incompetence, nepotism • Afenifere, UPU, Yoruba Ronu, PANDEF flay FG over coup alarm • Afe Babalola offers to convoke, sponsor Emergency National Conference • Another governor, Ndume raise the alarm over activities of Boko Haram • Insecurity: NANS threatens to shut down the country What began as a rumour or idle talk – whispers of a putsch – yesterday gathered a life of its own as state actors kept giving life to the notion, which is turning and turning in the widening gyre. First was the pledge by the military that it would not overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari, a former army general and head of state whose government has come under strident criticisms over growing insecurity in the country.
Chief Babalola spoke during the 10th Aare Afe Babalola Annual Public Lecture, organised by the Ado Ekiti branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
Daily Trust could not establish whether the announcement for the “summit of hope” by Babalola was just a coincidence or has something to do with the alarm raised by the presidency.
Babalola, however, explained that the intervention was to stop the country from drifting into imminent anarchy or resorting to another civil war.
He also donated the 700-Seater ABUAD Hall and the Five-Star ABUAD Inn to be used for the summit.
He said restructuring and forming a new constitution were key to turning things around for the better, if Nigerians so desired.
Afe Babalola donates N50m to fund emergency national conference
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti
Aare Afe Babalola, legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), on Tuesday, announced a donation of N50m to a self-sponsored National Conference, christened “Summit of Hope”
According to him, this becomes necessary “in order to find urgent ways out of the current crisis facing the country”.
The proposed conference which is scheduled to hold at his University in Ado Ekiti, anytime soon, was an initiative aimed at halting the country’s drift into imminent anarchy or resorting into another civil war.