With less than eight three days to the 2023 general elections, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has raised alarm that the Military is under constant pressure to compromise the 2023 general elections.
Irabor who made this disclosure at the 61st session of the ministerial media briefing, yesterday in Abuja, stated that necessary steps have been put in place to ensure that security officers adhere strictly to President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to maintain neutrality in the forthcoming election.
“Nigerians should have implicit confidence in Nigerian military officers and men who would remain totally committed to being neutral and apolitical,” he said.
According to him, personnel are being trained to be more professional while rules of engagement before, during and after the elections have been codified and distributed to them.
The CDS further reveals that over 300,000 persons have been freed from the hands of abductors since 2016 while refugees who fled the northeast owing to insurgency have started to return.
The Defence Chief also spoke on the key achievements of the military in the effort to keep the country safe including more recruitment into all branches of the security services, routing of insurgency and banditry as well as the action to curtail oil theft leading to an increase in crude oil production.
