Coup plot: I was a target, planned to be shot — Defence minister




The Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has said he was among those marked for arrest by officers accused of plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu, adding that the plan was to shoot him if he resisted.

Musa disclosed this on Sunday during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, days after the military announced that 16 officers arrested in October 2025 would face trial over an alleged coup plot.

The former Chief of Defence Staff said he became aware that he was listed as a target of the plotters.

He said, “I was also a target. I was supposed to be arrested, and if I refused, I was supposed to be shot.

“But that’s the job. And anybody who goes into coup, I mean, zeroes his mind because you know, you succeed good, you don’t succeed, whatever consequences come, you’re ready for it. But again, I think these guys were just a bunch of very unserious individuals that really don’t know.

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