Former Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd.), Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, has commended President Bola Tinubu for his swift deployment of military action to crush the attempted coup in the Republic of Benin, describing the action as a “decisive masterstroke” that safeguarded democracy and averted a regional crisis.
Buratai, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, expressed that the deployment of Nigerian Air Force jets and ground forces carried out at the request of Benin’s authorities was a display of “strategic foresight, political courage and military efficiency.”
The stated that President Bola Tinubu’s swift and decisive military intervention to crush the coup attempt in the Republic of Benin stands as a bold and commendable act of strategic statesmanship.
He said that the rapid deployment of Nigerian Air Force jets and ground forces, executed with precision at the formal request of a neighbour, successfully safeguarded a democracy and averted a dangerous spiral of regional instability.
Buratai slammed critiques of the intervention for their lack of comprehension of necessary foreign policy, saying, the essential foreign policy success by juxtaposing it with Nigeria’s protracted internal security battles, is to misunderstand the fundamental nature of the threats involved.
Buratai further explained that, the fight against banditry and insurgency within Nigeria is a complex and asymmetric war, adding that the conflict is not against a uniformed army but against shadowy, fluid networks of militants deeply embedded within social and economic grievances.
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