Buratai may not survive assassination attempt — Primate Ayodele predict

Primate Elijah Ayodele 

The leader of INRI Evangelical spiritual church, Primate Elijah Ayodele on Friday predicted an assa*sination attempt on the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai.

Primate Ayodele said he was not sure Buratai would survive the assa*sination attempt.

In a statement on Friday, the clergyman also warned of possible mutiny within the ranks of the military.

He called for caution, stressing that military officers may start kiIIing themselves.


Primate Ayodele also called for prayers against plane crash.

He said: “If care is not taken, the military will start kiIIing themselves.

“The Chief of Army Staff will face an assa*sination attempt. I don’t know if he will survive it.

“Let’s pray against any plane crash, Air Force or police helicopter or any private jet crash.”

There has been growing concerns over the current state of the Nigerian Military following reports that all was not well within the nation's security department.



The Nigerian House of Representatives in a recent plenary, expressed fears that issues arising within the military is a sign of an “impending military mutiny that may imperil our democracy, hence the need to urgently tackle this impending menace.”

The house which says the disturbing situation is sign of an 'impending menace' mandated the Committee on Army to investigate the issues raised by the Chief Whip of the house, Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno), and report back in one week for further legislative actions.

Speaking on some of the issues, Monguno said that there had been cases of mutiny resulting in sporadic shooting and attempted lynching of senior officers by junior officers.


“Recently, Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, commander of operation Lahya Dole, Nigeria‘s Counter-Terrorism headquarters, was removed for exposing inferior military wares and poor equipment of troops while briefing the chief of army staff from combat zone after successfully repelling an attack from Boko haram insurgents.

“Concerned that not too long ago, the general officer commanding 7 division of the Nigeria Army in Maimalari, Major General Victor Ezegwu, escaped being lynched by rampaging soldiers for leaving them with neither food or water while fighting in the northeastern part of the country for two days.



“On July 3, 2020, 356 soldier which is a battalion, serving in the northeast and other theatres of operations wrote to the chief of army staff asking for voluntary retirement from the force and citing loss of interest as reasons for their retirement,” he said.

The legislator said that military sources have attributed these massive resignations to loss of morale, unimproved allowances, mass casualties in the hands of Boko Haram terrorists.

Monguno said that the sources blamed it on lack of intelligence apparatus and fighting equipment’s as well as poor welfare packages for soldiers and their families by the army authorities.


He said rather than addressing the challenges, the Chief of Army staff via a 17-page circular and signed by Brig. -Gen. T.E Gagariga, graciously approved the voluntary retirement of a battalion of aggrieved soldiers in one fell swoop.

He said if the situation is not brought under control by nipping the influx of able ex-army officers into the society without job security, it may become a serious security threat.