News of plans to overthrow President Tinubu false — Fani-Kayode

News of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa overthrowing the administration of President Bola Tinubu has been described as false.

This clarification was made by former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode.

Fani-Kayode also said President Bola Tinubu will not fall for such claims that his Minister of State of Defence, Bello Matawalle, are planning to overthrow him and install a military regime.

Posting on X, the All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain said the video was aimed at getting Tinubu to sack some of his best appointees.

He said, “Now come the devious and vicious lies presented in a malevolent, morbid and well-orchestrated campaign of calumny and disinformation designed to engender suspicion, fear, division and panic in our ranks.

“A situation whereby fake stories and doctored videos are being peddled all over social media claiming that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, is poised to take over the reigns of Government and become Head of State and that the Minister of State of Defence, Bello Matawalle, is spying for and collaborating with the military Government of Niger Republic to topple the Tinubu administration clearly reflects the fact that the intention of those that are peddling such egregious and nonsensical falsehood is to sow division within the Government and mislead the President into firing some of his best, most trusted, most vocal and most loyal hands with a view to weakening him and making him vulnerable.

“This is a dummy that President Tinubu must not fall for.”

AllNews.ng recalls that a nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest began on Thursday, August 1 and will end on Saturday, August 10, 2024 according to the organisers.

The protest which started last week Thursday as at Tuesday is in its sixth day.

Despite President Bola Tinubu's nationwide on Sunday, protesters still defiantly continued their protest.

The protests which had been largely peaceful in some south west states has been violent in the North especially Kano, Kaduna, Katsina and otjer states.

Also, it was reported that on Sunday and Monday some of the protesters in some noethern8syates were waving the Russian flag and calling on the Nigerian military to overthrow the government.

However the Russian Embassy has debunked having anything to do with the protests.

Also, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Musa has restated that the Nigerian military will defend Nigeria's democracy.