Coup plotters were foolhardy even civilians would've taken them down — Defence minister

File Photo: Minister of Defence, Gen Christopher Musa

Defence Minister Christopher Musa has said the officers who plotted to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government had so little support that ordinary Nigerians would have taken them down without the military’s intervention.

He described the plotters as a band of confused individuals who recklessly dragged clueless junior officers into a doomed enterprise.

Musa spoke on Arise News on Friday, as the general court martial of officers accused of involvement in the October 2025 plot continues.

“Even the civilians in Nigeria would have taken them down. So I think it was just foolhardy for them to have done what they wanted to do,” he said.