Nigeria, Jan. 30 -- Nollywood filmmaker and actor Stanley "Stan K. Amandi" Amandi is trending on social media following his arrest over an alleged role in a failed coup plot aimed at overthrowing President Bola Tinubu's administration.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that security operatives arrested the actor alongside several military officers in September 2025.

Although his name surfaced publicly for the first time months after the arrest, the newspaper gathered that the alleged coup plotters engaged Amandi as a propagandist.

Investigators alleged that the group planned to assassinate top government officials last year, including Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives Ta...