After many months of rumours that a section of the political class is planning for an interim government in order to truncate the result of the recently-concluded general elections, the Department of State Services, DSS, formally confirmed on Wednesday that the plot was ongoing.
Spokesman for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, said in a statement made available to Vanguard that the agency had identified some key players in the plot for an interim government in Nigeria but did not give the names of the masterminds.
The agency said that the planners of the interim government had already held several meetings, during which they weighed many options to actualise their plot, including sponsoring endless mass protests across Nigerian cities, securing a warrant to declare a state of emergency or a court injunction to stop the inauguration of the executive and the legislature at the federal and state levels.
The statement said: “The DSS considers the plot, being pursued by these entrenched interests, as not only an aberration but a mischievous way to set aside the constitution and undermine civil rule as well as plunge the country into an avoidable crisis.
“While its monitoring continues, the DSS will not hesitate to take decisive and necessary legal steps against these misguided elements to frustrate their obnoxious intentions,” the secret service warned.
