“The military, that is the Army, the Navy and the Air Force are established to defend the country against external threats to the sovereignty and security of Nigeria.
“Anybody who is using the military for any purpose other than to check external threats is committing illegality, and illegality at that level is treasonable.
“What is the business of the military in conducting election in Nigeria? The military has no business in conducting election in Nigeria; their interference in elections in Nigeria is a shame to the country and its leaders but the question is: who is ruling the country? Is it not a military man that is ruling the country?
“The man ruling the country now overthrew a democratic government in 1983 and took over the government until another military man overthrew him and took over the government.
“Then, he won election in 2015 and returned as a democratically elected President of the country; but what is the difference?
“The only difference is the dress he wears. In 1983, he wore khaki uniform; from 2015 to date he has been wearing agbada, but it is the same man inside the agbada and khaki.
“There is no change at all, but they want to subjugate Nigeria by military force. How long can they continue in this regard? I do not know, but it does not make for peace, it does not make for tranquility and development.
“They have done the election the way they did in other places in the past with military intimidation, harassment and killings but in these areas, the people are crying and saying you cannot control us by foisting a government we have no hand in its enthronement.
“They have taken the oil, they have taken its management and they want to take our government and they are resisting it.”
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