The Nigerian military is under pressure to temper with process of the 2023 general elections, General Lucky Irabor, the Chief of Defense Staff, asserted, Thursday but Irabor, declared that the military will maintain its neutrality in the upcoming electoral process.
According to the defense chief, the military will help the Nigeria Police Force monitor and secure the process.
Gen Irabor stated this on Thursday at the ministerial media briefing held at the presidential villa in Abuja and organized by the presidential communications team.
He added that the required safeguards had been put in place to guarantee that military personnel adhered to President Muhammadu Buhari’s neutrality order pointing out that military personnel are receiving more professional training and that they have received written instructions on how to conduct themselves before, during, and after elections.
In an effort to keep the nation safe, the defense chief highlighted the military’s major accomplishments including increased hiring for all security service branches, the routing of insurgency and banditry, as well as measures to reduce oil theft that will increase crude oil production.
He said that since 2014, over 300,000 captives have been set free, and refugees who fled the northeast because of the insurgency have begun to return.
The head of the Defense Department added that former insurgents currently undergoing training will graduate in February of the following year before being reintegrated into society
