The Military High Command has warned politicians against using military personnel, their activities, uniforms or accoutrements as themes or for illustration of messages in political advertisements or any such productions.
The Director, Defence Information, Major General Jimmy Akpor, gave the warning in a statement on Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria that three video clips with the same scene, but different sound tracks are being circulated online, depicting military personnel dancing to music purportedly supporting or disapproving three different presidential candidates.
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The first video clip consciously portrayed troops making merry and dancing to music purportedly in celebration and open endorsement of one presidential candidate in the forthcoming general elections.
The second video clip, with the same visuals as the first one, willfully showed troops supposedly dancing to a derogatory song that insulted the personality of another presidential candidate.
As reported by The Eagle Online, some unscrupulous persons superimposed a derogatory song by the National Association of Seadogs, also known as Pyrates, on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2023 elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, into a dance session by troops in a camp: https://youtu.be/jk-wcQHUpsE
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