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Security chiefs warn against plans to disrupt 2019 elections in Nigeria
The security chiefs warned the media against activities of some unregistered groups that had become very active lately with the aim of undermine critical institutions.
Security chiefs in Nigeria have warned against plots by some groups to disrupt the 2019 general elections in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari's special assistant on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, made the revelation to newsmen at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja, on Thursday, March 29, 2018.
President Buhari's spokesman explained that the intelligence report was from three top security chiefs in Nigeria.
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Shehu listed the chief of defence staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin; the director general of the DSS, Lawal Daura; and the director general of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, as the security chiefs involved in the discovery.
The warning
President Buhari's aide said in a meeting with the security chiefs, the media had been urged to thread gently as the 2019 general elections creeps in.
Shehu said the security chiefs warned the media against activities of some unregistered groups that had become very active lately with the aim of undermine critical institutions such as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and law enforcement agencies.
In the same vein, the security chiefs had also called for cooperation with the media to prevent sabotage of the ongoing efforts to restore security in parts of Nigeria that have been hoodwinked by radical ideologies from outside the country.
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