The 2023 African Action Congress, presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, stated that President Bola Tinubu gave the retired Service Chiefs ‘mouth watering’ benefits in order to avoid a coup.
Recall that Tinubu ordered the sack of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, and the Comptroller-General of Customs.
According to sources, the Chief of Defence Staff and the service chiefs received armoured SUVs, personal assistants, guards, and other perks of office, including a significant allowance for medical treatment overseas, as retirement benefits.
Sowore reacted to the news by claiming that the parcel was the result of a scheme to detain him while he was in France.
Tweeting, Sowore wrote: “These mouth-watering retirement offers to these suddenly retired Nigerian military top brass sounds like they held Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu @ABATMediaCentre to ransom because they knew something the public didn’t know about his ‘Presidency.’ And selection.
“I think the rumour of their (military) plan to take out @officialABAT before his return from France might be true after all. So far, the interests of ordinary Nigerians have been sacrificed to get Tinubu’s power consolidated.”
