The Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to the report of President Bola Tinubu’s approval of a mouth-watering retirement package for the sacked Service Chiefs.
Sowore insinuated that Tinubu offered the sacked Service Chiefs retirement packages to discourage them from overthrowing his government.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that last week, Tinubu ordered the sack of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, and the Comptroller-General of Customs.
He immediately replaced them with new ones.
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Following their retirement, reports had it that the Chief of Defence Staff and the service chiefs got bulletproof Sport Utility Vehicles, personal aides, guards, and other perks of office, including generous allowance for medical treatment abroad, as retirement benefits.
Reacting to the development, Sowore claimed that the package was due to the plot to remove him while he travelled to 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.’
Africa Today News, New York reports that Nigeria’s new Service Chiefs appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu are; Major General Christopher Musa-Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja-Chief of Army Staff, Rear Admiral E. A Ogalla-Chief of Naval Staff, Air Vice Marshal Hassan Bala Abubakar-Chief of Air Staff; DIG Kayode Egbetokun, Acting Inspector-General of Police, Major General EPA Undiandeye-Chief of Defence Intelligence and Nuhu Ribadu-National Security Adviser.