Foiled Coup: Defence Minister says plotters planned his arrest, assassination Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has disclosed that he was marked for arrest and possible assassination in a recently foiled coup attempt against the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Speaking during a televised interview, the Defence Minister said intelligence reports revealed that the alleged coup plotters planned to detain him and shoot him if he resisted arrest. He described the plot as poorly conceived and driven by a small group of disgruntled officers who underestimated Nigeria’s democratic...