How to remove protected package using microdnf

How a protected package can be removed using microdnf package manager? When running docker container almalinux/9-minimal (or redhat/ubi9-minimal) like

podman run -it --rm almalinux/9-minimal

and inside the container

microdnf install -y dnf && microdnf remove -y dnf

the latter command fails with

error: Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected:
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf