Nigeria, March 19 -- PREMIUM TIMES has obtained fresh details suggesting an elaborate plot by suspected coup conspirators to storm Nigeria's seat of power, seize the Presidential Villa, and capture President Bola Tinubu and other top officials in a coordinated operation that spanned key military and national assets.

Findings show that beyond earlier reports of assassination plans, the alleged plotters also designed a multi-layered operation aimed at taking control of Aso Rock and other key locations, neutralising top military leadership, and decapitating Nigeria's command and leadership structures.

At the heart of the alleged conspiracy was a plan to overrun the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria's most fortified political stronghold,...