Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned an attempted coup plot against the Ghanaian authorities.

The president said the only acceptable form of governance in the 21st century is through democratic elections adding that the days of coups and government without votes are over.

The alleged coup plot is coming less than a year to Ghana’s next General Election. Ghanaian authorities later announced the arrest of the suspects whom it identified as members of a group known as Take Action Ghana (TAG).

Ghana’s Minister of Information, Kojo Nkrumah, said the group was recruiting young people with the sole aim of destabilising the country.

Reacting in a statement by his Senior Special assistant media and publicity spokesperson, Garba Shehu, the president said Nigeria extends a hand of support and friendship to our brothers and sisters in Ghana.

The statement reads;

“Following the announcement of the interception of an attempted plot against the authorities in Ghana, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has issued the following statement.

“Nigeria and Ghana are leading partners in ECOWAS, and Transparency International, and Afrobarometer’s Africa Index 2019 attested that both countries have recorded exceptional advances in fighting corruption.

When you take on powerful and corrupt vested interests successfully, sometimes they seek to push back. As the saying goes, ‘if you fight corruption, corruption will fight back.”

In recent years, Ghana has enjoyed relative peace but has faced some security challenges including kidnapping.