Alleged coup: FG set to arraign 6 suspects

The Federal Government is set to arraign six suspected coup plotters.

The case is listed number 14 on the Wednesday cause list before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik.

The Federal Government, through the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), had filed the charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/206/2026, against the defendants.

The suspects are Maj-Gen. Mohammed Ibrahim Gana (rtd), Cap. (NN) Erasmus Ochegobia Victor (rtd), Insp Ahmed Ibrahim, Zekeri Umoru, Bukar Kashim Goni and Abdulkadir Sani, listed as 1st to 6th defendants respectively.

Although the former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, is not named as a defendant in the charge, he is listed as being at large.

Meanwhile, as at the time of filing this report, only Abdulkadir Sani,a cleric in Zaria, Kaduna State and also the 6th suspect was in court.

Other suspects are yet to be brought to court.

However, the charge before Justice Abdulmalik, dated and filed on April 20 by the Director, Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, accused the defendants of alleged treason and terrorism.

The defendants were also accused of failure to disclose security intelligence and money laundering linked to terrorism financing.

At the centre of the case is an allegation that the defendants conspired in 2025 to undermine the Nigerian state.

They were alleged to have conspired with one another to levy war against the state to overawe the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The offence is said to be punishable under Section 37(2) of the Criminal Code.

The case is yet to be called as at the time of filing this report.