ABUJA – Renowned human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has thrown a legal spanner into the military’s plans to court-martial 16 officers accused of plotting to topple President Bola Tinubu, declaring the move unconstitutional. “The soldiers cannot be court-martialed; they are not trying to remove a military dictator,” Falana asserted. He warned that using a military tribunal to try an offense against the democratic order undermines the supremacy of the 1999 Constitution. He noted that even with military involvement, the matter was handled by the regular judiciary, resulting in a 50-year sentence. Will the Federal Government heed Falana’s warning and transfer the case to the Ministry of Justice, or will the military proceed with its high-stakes tribunal?