Reports monitored online have quoted former coup leader and military president Ibrahim Badamosi Babaginda as saying that the military is no threat to Nigeria’s democracy.
IBB echoed this in Abuja at the National Defence College (NDC) Graduation Lecture of Course 20/20th Anniversary Celebration.
The former military president said that the nation’s democracy faces no danger from the military due to the officers’ training and exposure to the tenets of democracy.
The former military leader, delivered a paper titled: “The Creation of National Defence College: 20 Years After ’’, where he noted that the college’s curriculum had exposed participants to the tenets of democracy from its inception in 1992.
He said the college had inculcated in military and paramilitary personnel, core values and ethics that supported democratic rule.
“I can say without equivocation that our democracy faces no danger from the military.
“This is because the curriculum of this college has exposed participants to the tenets of democracy from its inception.
“Therefore, long before Nigeria returned to democratic rule, military officers, who passed through this college, were prepared for service under civilian leadership and control.
“Thus, by the time international partners were falling over themselves to give lessons in civil-military relations, most senior officers in the Armed
Forces had learnt this at the college,’’ Babangida said.