{"id":17915,"date":"2019-05-14T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17915"},"modified":"2019-05-14T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:10:29","slug":"coup-call-we-are-not-part-of-it-says-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17915","title":{"rendered":"Coup call: We are not part of it, says armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Eyiangho\/Abuja (<strong>NAN)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Tuesday dissociated the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) from a document calling for the overthrow of the Muhammadu Buhari democratically-elected administration.<br \/>\nNavy Capt. Muhammed Wabi, Deputy Director of Defence Information accused a group, \u201cNigerian Continuity and Progress (NCP)\u2019\u2019 as being behind the document.<br \/>\nWabi alleged that the document called for the setting up of an \u201cinterim government\u2019\u2019 in place of the elected government.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) wishes to dissociate itself from the rascality and intentions as espoused in a document being circulated by a faceless group named Nigerian Continuity and Progress (NCP) calling for support of a revolution to oust the current democratically elected government and in its place establish an illegitimate interim government.<br \/>\n\u201cThe AFN outrightly condemns the undemocratic and demonic actions of the author of the document.<br \/>\n\u201cAccordingly, members of the public are enjoined to discountenance the content of the documents being circulated by NCP and equally condemned in totality, the call to derail our hard earned democracy,\u2019\u2019 the statement said.<br \/>\nWabi said that the AFN was \u201cvery mindful of its constitutional responsibilities\u2019\u2019 and would not be misled into any act that would undermine democracy as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution as amended.<br \/>\n\u201cThe AFN remains unflinchingly loyal to the Constitution, as well as President Muhammadu Buhari and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe statement said all relevant law enforcement agencies had been advised to unravel those behind the seditious document for appropriate actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Eyiangho\/Abuja (NAN) The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Tuesday dissociated the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) from a document calling for the overthrow of the Muhammadu Buhari democratically-elected administration. Navy Capt. Muhammed Wabi, Deputy Director of Defence Information accused a group, \u201cNigerian Continuity and Progress (NCP)\u2019\u2019 as being behind the document. Wabi alleged that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}