We have received information that two high ranking Nigerian army Generals (names withheld) have submitted their resignation following an argument with the Chief of the army, Kenneth Minimah.
According to our sources, the Generals had told the Chief of the Army that whoever won the 2015 presidential elections must be handed the office; however the Nigerian Chief of army had told them that this will not be so as the army was working for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Following this, the two army generals were said to have tendered their immediate resignation from the army.

We have been unable to obtain comment from the Nigerian army.

A recent report we broke from an aide of the president’s spokesperson, Doyin Okupe indicated a position from the embattled government to initiate a military coup rather than risk incarceration of corrupt officials and business cabal and blockage of flow of loot from the nation’s treasury if a Buhari/Osinbajo government comes into power.

http://abusidiqu.com/two-army-generals-reportedly-resigns-insistence-army-chief-work-pdp/

GEJ and his team should be ready for the worst, then because Buhari has already won this Presidential election.

This again collaborated the report from Sahara Reporters;
GEJ's Masterplan To Scuttle February 14th Election Exposed!

In the face of dwindling prospects for his re-election bid, President Goodluck Jonathan has embarked on a renewed three-pronged approach to scuttle the presidential election scheduled for February 14, several sources within the Presidency have disclosed. In a startling disclosure, our sources said Mr. Jonathan was willing to entertain a military take-over as one of his options.

Over the last two weeks, it had dawned on Mr. Jonathan that his hopes for winning re-election had dimmed significantly. Our sources said the president was deeply distressed to find out that several governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been working quietly with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to thwart his re-election. “Apart from Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Mr. President is no longer sure that he can count on the support of any of our other governors,” an insider in the Presidency said.

Another source said several PDP governors were aggrieved that Mr. Jonathan shortchanged or abandoned them during the party’s primaries. Several of them are reportedly paying the president back by standing aloof from his campaigns or actively mobilizing support for Muhammadu Buhari, the APC’s presidential candidate.

Our sources revealed that the president and hawks within his administration held a prolonged meeting yesterday and decided that the elections must be frustrated at all cost. Two of the sources said Mr. Jonathan intends to call a meeting of the Council of State for Thursday to persuade its members to back a proposal to postpone the polls. In place of an election, the president wants to set up “a government of national unity” to be headed by him for 18 months to two years. It is unclear whether the council would endorse the plan to reschedule elections. The council’s membership includes past heads of state and presidents, and some of them have been openly critical of Mr. Jonathan’s record.

One source stated that, as part of the broad strategy to scuttle the elections, the Presidency would refuse to pay the balance of the contract for the printing of ballot papers. The contract was awarded when the Nigerian currency, the naira, officially exchanged for N165 to a dollar. The source said the contractor, who claimed to be sourcing his foreign currency from the black market, is now seeking an adjustment to his contract. “The contractor wants to be paid N210 to a dollar, but President Jonathan and his team have refused to help the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) source the balance,” our source revealed.

Instead, the president and his team have advised INEC to look for a local Nigerian printer to print the ballot papers. INEC chairman Attahiru Jega and some of his top aides have balked at the idea of using a local printer. They argue that such an arrangement would be a perfect recipe for chaos, allowing the Presidency to use its considerable slush funds to illegally print duplicate papers with which to rig the election, as happened in several states in 2011.

A source at INEC told SaharaReporters that the commission’s chairman and some top officials suspect that the Jonathan administration was working seriously to undermine the commission’s credibility. “There is a lot of internal sabotage going on at INEC,” the source said. He disclosed that some resident electoral commissions were giving contradictory statements and reports about the commission’s preparedness for the February elections, without clearing with the headquarters. “Can you imagine also that even non-essential materials are being stolen from INEC offices, all in an effort to undermine the effort to hold elections,” said the source.

The Presidency’s second option is the recruitment of some members of the defunct National Conference to press the case for postponing the elections until Nigerians discuss, adopt and implement the resolutions of the confab. In order to push that agenda, the Presidency has released more than N2 billion to Raymond Dokpesi, the owner of Africa Independent Television (AIT), to coordinate the campaign for postponement of the elections. Using AIT and other willing media, Mr. Dokpesi is expected to press the case for constituting an interim national government headed by Mr. Jonathan. Earlier today in Abuja, Mr. Dokpesi’s AIT aired a live discussion by members of a “post national conference consultative committee”, to begin framing the case for postponement. The live program featured Bolaji Akinyemi, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Femi Okurounmu, who headed a nationwide consultation for the national conference, Maurice Iwu, a notorious former INEC chairman, Mike Ezekhome, a lawyer, G.G. Darah, a professor and close associate of jailed former Governor James Ibori of Delta State, and Balarabe Musa, a former governor of Kaduna State whose involvement is perhaps the only surprise.

Dokpesi’s group is expected to use its huge war chest to argue that elections are untenable because of INEC’s questionable preparedness as well as the tense security situation in Nigeria’s northeast.

The Presidency’s third option is the possible use of the Nigerian military to scuttle the election. Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, General Tobiah Minimah, is reportedly a key player in executing the military option. One source reported that General Minimah, who is from President Jonathan’s Niger Delta region, was initially reluctant, but eventually signed up for the scheme to use the military to intervene should the elections proceed and not go President Jonathan’s way.

Our sources said the president was irate that INEC chairman, Mr. Jega, had been avoiding meetings with him and his presidential aides. “Professor Jega has maintained that he wants to be seen to have conducted a free and transparent election, even if imperfect. He has therefore maintained that there is no point going to Aso Rock to hold meetings exclusively with Mr. President, who is a candidate, and the president’s team,” one source close to Mr. Jega said.

Our Presidency sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan had started looking for ways to remove the INEC chairman from office. “If they succeed in postponing the elections, the president will either suspend Prof. Jega, the way he did to former Central Bank Governor [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] or ask him to go on compulsory leave pending the end of his tenure.”

While SaharaReporters was about to publish this report, several sources told our reporters that President Jonathan and his co-travelers have moved to the courts as a way of scuttling the elections, at least five court cases have been filed to either postpone the elections and disqualify the APC candidate , Muhammad Buhari.

A reliable source told our team of investigators that President Jonathan is shopping for a federal high court judge to scuttle the elections with a court order in the next few hours.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/02/jonathan-renews-push-election-postponement-hope-fades-victory

If this is true, then where is the beauty of democracy? Everything is @ its worst in this country.. I can't believe the Nigerian army cn be ds privatized..no wonder the BH boyz r always a step ahead of them

God is above those that r above the helpless..

The same God that barbs the vulture's hair will put things straight in this country

I rest my case

Why "names witheld" again? Name them so we know we are not dealing with hearsays. . .

This is assuming these generals don't find themselves alone planning the coup. Lol. Chop alone and die alone is what they have been doing anyway. So Abeg, who will follow them to do coup? The starved soldier's or the ones whose morale has been finished by death sentences handed out like Akara for protesting about their terrible weapons

Figment of someone's imagination.

This is serious!

baby124:
This is assuming these generals don't find themselves alone planning the coup. Lol. Chop alone and die alone is what they have been doing anyway. So Abeg, who will follow them to do coup? The starved soldier's or the ones whose morale has been finished by death sentences handed out like Akara for protesting about their terrible weapons

I wonder o

Some funny people forget that the army is not made of machines they are men and women and the vast majority of them are NOT Ijaw. It will be very simple to sweep Minimah aside .Minimah will be a whole lot easier than Ironsi. Iss he going to make Tompolo a GOC??
If that is the joker PDP better think very well. I am sure Minimah will not be that stupid

O boy see civilian coup oo. This ebele is just a desperado.

If names are withheld forget the crap story

You people should fear God with all these lies you're peddling with intentions of heating up the polity o.

The elites won't be the casualties. It is poor people like you and me that will be the worst hit if things get to a head following the kind of rancor being down by these propagandists all in a bid to be sensational.

A word is enough....

Jonathan has finished the prospect of any Ijaw man; by extension, Igbo man to become a president of this country for life.

This is the fear of everybody right from d 60s that when these people gets to power just like in 60s(Aguiyi Ironsi regime), there would be chaos everywhere and that is exactly what is happening now

I ll advise those two tribes to ask for their independence now......

FolarinLondon:
Jonathan has finished the prospect of any Ijaw man; by extension, Igbo man to become a president of this country for life.

This is the fear of everybody right from d 60s that when these people gets to power just like in 60s(Aguiyi Ironsi regime), there would be chaos everywhere and that is exactly what is happening now

I ll advise those two tribes to ask for their independence now......

Talk is cheap, what are the Ijaws gaining from Nigeria apart from parasites leeching their resources? The Igbos fought to break away and didn't your people fight tooth and nail to make sure they couldn't secede? The truth is the SW and the North needs Nigeria more than any other region.

With the way things are turning out, I'm beginning to fear things might spiral out of control.

GEJ said emphatically ''none of our political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian''

A coup will further result to a counter coup and GEJ might not be lucky to survive it.

I hope what I just read isn't true. The polity is already red hot as it is. If anybody should do anything stupid we may never again be able to celebrate valentine's day without a painful rememberance of our mistakes.

I wouldn't have commented knowing the source of this news is abdulsidique.com (otherwise known as the Buhari information centre)

What a waste.

PDP are by forcing people to do their wishes just as they have the media house and inec in their control

K

Mogidi:


Talk is cheap, what are the Ijaws gaining from Nigeria apart from parasites leeching their resources? The Igbos fought to break away and didn't your people fight tooth and nail to make sure they couldn't secede? The truth is the SW and the North needs Nigeria more than any other region.

Point of correction, if you repeat what you did in 60s in your quest to control what was not yours and without obtaining proper permission to go through our land, the same fate ll befall you again but this time around, there would be no mercy from any quarter as far as South west is concerned.

Also, Yoruba leaders cherish every single soul of Yorubas and they ll always embark on what(peaceful resolution/protest) could be achieved without killing million of Yorubas. It does not make sense to kill millions of your people(Igbo leaders) by taking them to unnecessary war when you are accusing the same outsiders(Hausas/Fulanis) of killing the same people whom you are trying to protect. Common sense is not luxury but necessity.....

History has not taught you how Yorubas have always been independent and prosperous nation. I ll advise you to go and read your history book very well and see which region was more prosperous among others before and after independence. And of course how your brother in person of Aguiyi Ironsi single handedly scuttled and destroyed this pure regional government;true federalism. Can you see how pathetic you guys are? Do you notice that no matter how your people talk about past military government, they hardly(always avoid mentioning him) talk about the crime of their brother.

Even as things stand today, it's obvious to the blind that Yorubas nation ll be fine regardless where we find ourselves.

The only tribe that needs others is Igbo due to their population and quest to get rich at all cost.

Hausas/Fulanis are just like white people; simple life. They ll be fine too.

The question you need to ask yourself is this " would Igbos be able to stay in their Biafra Nation after attaining independence? I presume your answer is as bad as mine. And this is when you ask that question of who needs others.....

You can call the above story someone's imagination....but I don't know why I saw it playing like a movie while I was reading it . This is so possible and real...Jonathan is a desperate maufawker

I laugh in Chinese


Jonathan you go hear weeeehn!

I'm happy that the Military Officers loyal to the North are fully prepared.

When it starts, COAS or C-in-C, all of them will be uprooted in a pogrom that can only be imagined!

Stop being tribalistic it is shallow small-minded and backwards.

We want change and we want a new Nigeria where tribe is not an issue.

We need to banish tribalism from our hearts and thoughts.

FolarinLondon:
Jonathan has finished the prospect of any Ijaw man; by extension, Igbo man to become a president of this country for life.

This is the fear of everybody right from d 60s that when these people gets to power just like in 60s(Aguiyi Ironsi regime), there would be chaos everywhere and that is exactly what is happening now

I ll advise those two tribes to ask for their independence now......

They are free to go. we will employ others.

If the army can be politicised ,I see no difficulty in them removing Buhari's certificate from their files just to discredit him.

Zoharariel:
I'm happy that the Military Officers loyal to the North are fully prepared.

When it starts, COAS or C-in-C, all of them will be uprooted in a pogrom that can only be imagined!

noise maker.the Nigerian army of today is no longer what it used to be in the past.The era of the northern dominated army is gone.Better get that into your skull

Yerwa:
If the army can be politicised ,I see no difficulty in them removing Buhari's certificate from their files just to discredit him.

ODE DID BUHARI SUBMIT ANY CREDENTIAL TO THE ARMY? YOUR ILLIERATE GENERAL NEVER HAD ANY WAASC CERTIFICATE TO BEGIN WITH

FolarinLondon:
Jonathan has finished the prospect of any Ijaw man; by extension, Igbo man to become a president of this country for life.

This is the fear of everybody right from d 60s that when these people gets to power just like in 60s(Aguiyi Ironsi regime), there would be chaos everywhere and that is exactly what is happening now

I ll advise those two tribes to ask for their independence now......

SEE THIS MUM INTERNET WARRIOR!! WERE YOU THE ONE THAT MADE GEJ PRESIDENT IN 2010? WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT BY HOOK OR CROOK HE WILL REMAIN PRESIDENT TILL 2019 AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

GenBuhari:
Stop being tribalistic it is shallow small-minded and backwards.

We want change and we want a new Nigeria where tribe is not an issue.

We need to banish tribalism from our hearts and thoughts.

Far from it-Tribalism; it is all about our history as a nation.

There has been a chain of events in the past(In 60s to be precise) and which led to mistrust among different ethnic groups and as long as we Nigerians refuse to address these issues, trust ll continue to elude us and that alone is a big problem.

As a result of what happened in 60s, Hausas/Fulanis/Yorubas never trust Igbos as far as sensitive governmental position is concerned and that was why Hausas/Fulanis paid more attention to Hijerilka reign as head of military; be smart bro. Hijerilka didn't commit any crime, it was past history that led to all what Hijerilka was accused of. Pls read the hand writing on the wall.

What is happening now in Nigeria has happened before and it only happened during Aguiyi Ironsi regime in which tribalism and division in the army became a national issue

If you think you could use tribalism to scuttle change, you are in for a surprise.
Nigeria isn't so naive any more.

Go away.

FolarinLondon:


Far from it-Tribalism; it is all about our history as a nation.

There has been a chain of events in the past(In 60s to be precise) and which led to mistrust among different ethnic groups and as long as we Nigerians refuse to address these issues, trust ll continue to elude us and that alone is a big problem.

As a result of what happened in 60s, Hausas/Fulanis/Yorubas never trust Igbos as far as sensitive governmental position is concerned and that was why Hausas/Fulanis paid more attention to Hijerilka reign as head of military; be smart bro. Hijerilka didn't commit any crime, it was past history that led to all what Hijerilka was accused of. Pls read the hand writing on the wall.

What is happening now in Nigeria has happened before and it only happened during Aguiyi Ironsi regime in which tribalism and division in the army became a national issue

FolarinLondon:
Jonathan has finished the prospect of any Ijaw man; by extension, Igbo man to become a president of this country for life.

This is the fear of everybody right from d 60s that when these people gets to power just like in 60s(Aguiyi Ironsi regime), there would be chaos everywhere and that is exactly what is happening now

I ll advise those two tribes to ask for their independence now......

See parasite insulting host


I hope your region has planted sufficient cocoa for life without SE/SS oil.

owobokiri:
Why "names witheld" again? Name them so we know we are not dealing with hearsays. . .

Help me ask them o. Some people just like peddling lies to misinform the public and incite them against the govt of the day. If those generals can not be named, then this story is fake.