However much the Presidency tried to explain away President Bola Tinubu’s last-minute cancellation of this year’s Independence Day parade, it was clear that something was amiss. For such a milestone as Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, it was beyond belief that the president would abruptly ditch the parade on the strange excuse that the Armed Forces should not be sidetracked from fighting terrorism, as if the entire military would be on the parade ground. An intelligent guess would suggest that President Tinubu was probably warned against appearing in public because of an attempted coup d’etat. Put simply, he was apparently alerted to danger ahead and shielded from it.