Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), on Tuesday vowed to take legal action against those behind reports of his rumoured resignation, saying he was \u201cshocked\u201d by the reports and had no knowledge of their origin.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not going anywhere. I have never discussed this. I don\u2019t even know who the person is that brought that information. But whoever it is, we will take legal action against them,\u201d Musa said after emerging from closed-door talks with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.\n<\/p>\n
Musa arrived at the Villa at approximately 3 pm and departed well after 4 pm on Tuesday, amid the swirling rumours about his tenure.\n<\/p>\n
Emerging from the meeting, the Defence Minister denied any discussion of resignation and said the reports were the handiwork of people uncomfortable with the administration\u2019s improving security record.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhoever it is, we will take legal action against them. I am sure we will get them. He will come and explain who gave him such information,\u201d Musa said.\n<\/p>\n
He described the rumours as a deliberate attempt to undercut public confidence in the administration\u2019s security gains.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are surprised. I was shocked when I saw that. I don\u2019t know where that came from. But you always expect that there will be people who will not be happy when things are going well. Security is improving, things are getting better, and for them, that is a sad point. They always want to make it look as if it is not so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said the private meeting with the President was a routine security briefing and that Tinubu had expressed satisfaction with the military\u2019s performance.\n<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cI just came back from briefing Mr President on the current security situation, and he is very happy with us. We are going to continue doing well.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He also appealed for continued civilian cooperation with security forces, framing it as indispensable to the campaign against terrorism and banditry.\n<\/p>\n
Musa stated, \u201cI want to seize this opportunity to appreciate Nigerians for all the support.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe support has been massive. To defeat the terrorists and the bandits is a whole-of-society approach. Nigerians have keyed into it, and things are getting better, and they will continue to improve.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Musa was nominated Minister of Defence by Tinubu on December 2, 2025, having previously served as Chief of Defence Staff from July 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), on Tuesday vowed to take legal action against those behind reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[23887,17402,15108,14161,122,9287,15754,165053,165054],"class_list":["post-341624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-aso-rock","tag-christopher-musa","tag-defence-minister","tag-legal-action","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-politics","tag-president-tinubu","tag-resignation-rumours","tag-security-briefing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}