The news about a coup plot should not be seen as a storm in a teacup. More so, we should treat it like a Bull finding its way into a china shop. When the news broke, about an attempted coup in Nigeria. The attention was more on how to court martial those who had the temerity to report the news. This is a regime that wants to control and sift the news narration of the country. Anything outside what it can control is labeled fake news. The harbingers are doing so because they hate Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Then came the change in the heads of the military. That was the administration way of accepting the fact that all is not well in Aso Rock. While nobody wants a regime change via a military intervention. The question we must ask ourselves is what can we as a country do.......should some opportunistic Soldiers strike?
Will the people take to the streets to drive them back to the barracks? Will they welcome them as liberating forces? Or will they be apathetic? Based on the situation in the country. The environment that the APC has created. Unless you are benefitting from this regime. The truth is corruption, tribalism, nepotism and those in power profiting and dividing the nation are what we have on the ground. Those have always been the reasons why the military have taken overpower in the past. In a radio broadcast on January 15, 1966, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu announced the first military coup in Nigeria's history. The reasons he gave were those you just read. Tell me what has changed in the democracy we have that will prevent another coup from happening in Nigeria.
Before you crucify me. Hear me out. Democracy dies in darkness. Good and sincere governance is the only way to keep the military in the barracks. The Nigerian military, ranked as the third most powerful in Africa, is facing ongoing challenges. Issues include a cycle of reactive counter-insurgency efforts, poor troop morale due to low pay and inadequate equipment, and a need for more strategic long-term plans to address diverse security threats like insurgency, banditry, and farmer-herder conflicts. Coupled with the poverty in the land. Here my fellow country men and women is a perfect storm of an ill wind. When the ruling government decides that it is good strategy to kill the opposition. Leading the country into a one-party state. Make it impossible for people to make their grievances known. Celebrating and putting rogues in government positions. Squandering the riches of the country on frivolous foreign trips. The opposition invariably, will be the military. The lack of a robust democracy is the recipe for a coup. It is the violent truth that we choose to ignore at our peril.
Source:JAIYEOLA AJASA.
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