Some senior military officers have asserted that the failed September 2025 coup plot may have influenced President Bola Tinubu’s decision to expand the Nigerian Army with four additional divisions. In an interview with Punch, a senior military intelligence operative disclosed that intelligence assessments conducted after the September 2025 failed coup plot significantly influenced the ongoing reforms within the security architecture. According to him, part of the strategy could be the expansion of the military divisions, stressing that internal assessments of public reactions following reports of the failed coup plot also influenced the government’s security calculations. He noted that executing a successful military coup had become considerably more difficult because of advances in surveillance technology, intelligence gathering, and command-and-control systems. The Air Force officer said, “From the government’s perspective, the safest option is to ensure that any future attempt becomes practically impossible to organise.