The Department of State Services (DSS) has said there is a move to impose an illegal interim government on Nigeria.
This is coming weeks after some politicians across the country raised this alarm, and barely a month after the 25 February presidential election that produced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s next president.
In a statement on Wednesday by the DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, the secret agency said it considers the plot as an “aberration and a mischievous” way to set aside the constitution and undermine civil rule as well as plunge the country into an avoidable crisis.
It said the planners, in their many meetings, have weighed various options, which include, among others, sponsoring endless violent mass protests in major cities to warrant a declaration of State of Emergency.
The statement said, “Another is to obtain frivolous court injunctions to forestall the inauguration of new executive administrations and legislative houses at the Federal and State levels,” Mr Afunanya said.
He said that the “illegality is totally unacceptable in a democracy and to the peace-loving Nigerians.”
The DSS warned those organising to thwart democracy in the country to retract from their schemes and orchestrations.
It urged stakeholders including the judiciary, media and civil society to be watchful and cautious to avoid being used as instruments to subvert the peace and stability of the nation.
While its monitoring continues, the SSS said it will not hesitate to take decisive and necessary legal steps against persons with such intentions.
It said it “supports the President and Commander-in-Chief in his avowed commitment to a hitch-free handover and will assiduously work in this direction. It also supports the Presidential Transition Council and such other related bodies in the States.”
