National security: CDS, Matawalle, Tinubu’s best hands – Akpodoro

The Mayor of Urhoboland and ex-militant leader in the Niger Delta region, Eshanakpe Israel a.k.a Akpodoro has described insinuations in some quarters alleging plot by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Chris Gwabin Musa and the Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle of orchestrating  a military putsch as a cocktail of lies and criminal campaign of calumny against the President Bola Tinubu’s best hands.

Akpodoro who stated this in Ughelli, Delta State yesterday said the allegations were baseless, drawing a map of a grand conspiracy to drive a wedge between President Tinubu and his trusted hands.

Akpodoro noted that General Musa who is one of the best the Nigerian military has produced having served his nation meritoriously to rise to the level he is today can never descend so low as to love his nation less, adding that those behind the news were even more reckless by mentioning a former governor of Zamfara State who served his people well.

The thought of a conspiracy involving the CDS and the  Minister of State for Defence, Akpodoro said exists only in the minds of evil people, saying when Matawalle was the governor of Zamfara insecurity occasioned by banditry and terrorism were diplomatically with the finesse of character defeated whereas, the state have since relapsed into the theatre of the absurd since his exit  as governor.

“The duo of the General Gwabin and Dr. Matawalle have been the nightmare of the enemies of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the current administration,” he said.

In a collective effort, he noted that the CDS and Matawalle have built a bulwark of defence around democratic structures in the country, as he warned those who want Nigeria to fall to stop their malevolence posture against country, adding that President Tinubu’s presidency is legitimate  and has come to stay.

The Mayor called on Nigerians to discountenance mischievous elements and rally support for the president who he said his achievements within one year in the saddle causes the nation’s enemies sleepless nights.