[ilaksh]

That's very surreal. And would be funny if the situation wasn't so serious.

Can someone from that country or who knows what's going on give some insight?

On the face of it, seems like military leaders who don't want to give up control. Is it more complicated than that? Do they actually believe there will be some kind of revolt by one faction if she stays in power (or at least some excuse like that)? The article I saw was not very insightful.

[elif]

The military thought they were going to slowly take power back from her, but instead she extended her democratic election mandate.

Plan A failed so this is B.

Their pretense is the "election was fraud"