APRIL 1990 COUP D'ETAT SPEECH
Fellow Nigerian Citizens,
On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the
Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major
Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful
ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man,
deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic
administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We
have equally commenced their trials for unabated
corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the
murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with
other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere
intentions that were yet to materialise and other human
rights violations.
The National Guard already in its formative stage is
disbanded with immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and
46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to emphasise that this is
not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and
executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and
enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a
view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from
eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.
Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable
instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive
intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate
till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great
country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and
the south.
They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt
and making them voiceless and now extending same to the
south.
It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination,
oppression and marginalisation is against the wish of God
and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.
Anything that has a beginning must have an end. It will
also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton
in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change.
However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all
reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.
For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three
primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic
Babangida administration. The reasons are as follows:
(a) To stop Babangida’s desire to cunningly, install himself
as Nigeria’s life president at all costs and by so doing,
retard the progress of this country for life. In order to be
able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has
evidently started destroying those groups and sections he
perceived as being able to question his desires.
Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against
one another or completely destroyed are:
(1) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan
to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.
(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State,
especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the
body politics of this country.
(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours
and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of
terror.
(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of
the draconian decree Number 47.
(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching
staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million
dollar loan as the necessitating factor.
(6) Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to
make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical
scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than
half of the members of the armed forces.
Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a
life president against the wishes of the people are:
(1) His appointment of himself as a minister of defense, his
putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate
manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction
of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options,
his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that have
installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged
determination to create a secret force called the national
guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which
will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and
administratively.
It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of
Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990’s, and,
therefore, must be resisted by all.
Another major reason for the change is the need to stop
intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the
Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few. This, in our
view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the
problems of Nigerians.
This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of
progress.
This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and
unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for
accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a
nation.
This will ever remain our threat if not checked
immediately. It is strongly believed that without the
intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will
have in all ways achieved developmental virtues
comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and
even Japan.
Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a
factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the
wheel of progress of the Nigerian state. (Sic) It is suffice to
mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group
of Nigerians in recent past. These are:
(1) The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the
longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General
Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the
Babangida administration.
(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida’s administration
by the all powerful clique.
(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of
Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr.
Aret Adams and so on from office.
(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of
Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their
instant replacement by the favoured class and their
stooges.
(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and
retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment
of other educational minded parts of this country.
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the
Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and
feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the
aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute
affluence on a daily basis without working for it.
(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative,
oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where
people and stooges that can best be described by the fact
that even though they contribute very little economically to
the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served
and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in
the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this
country, while the people from these parts of the country
have been completely deprived from benefiting from the
resources given to them by God.
( The third reason for the change is the need to lay a
strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take
off of the Nigerian state or states as they circumstances
may dictate.
In the light of all the above and in recognition of the
negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the
overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision
to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno,
Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic
of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following
conditions are met.
The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of
the aforementioned states are as following:
(a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji
Maccido, who is the people’s choice.
(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised
Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch
that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and
operation will be a thing of the past and will never be
practised in any part of the Nigeria state.
By the same token, all citizens of the five states already
mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and
private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this
country until the mentioned conditions above are met.
They are also required to move back to their various states
within one week from today. They will, however, be allowed
to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the
stipulated conditions are met.
In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the
south are required to come back to their various states
pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the
conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria. A word is
enough for the wise.
This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt
public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since
the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard times,
when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles
to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with
complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both
inside and outside the country.
We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth
back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our
people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no
cause for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as
directed by God. All airports, seaports and borders are
closed forthwith.
The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded
and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by
the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-
head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police,
one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.
A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until
further notice. All members of the armed forces and the
police forces are hereby confined to their respective
barracks.
All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause
chaos will be ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we are
prepared at all costs to defend the new order.
All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on
permanently to the national network programme until further
notice.
Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May
God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all.
RETURN TO HOM

yes i hope soo

excising 5 states of sokoto,katsina,kano,bauchi and borno would be tantamount to removing these present day states from Nigeria
1]Sokoto : sokoto,kebbi & zamfara
2]Katsina
3]Kano : kano,jigawa
4]Bauchi :bauchi ,gombe
5]Borno : borno,yobe
that's a total of 10 states and frankly speaking, Nigeria would've been better off without them

cheruv:
excising 5 states of sokoto,katsina,kano,bauchi and borno would be tantamount to removing these present day states from Nigeria
1]Sokoto : sokoto,kebbi & zamfara
2]Katsina
3]Kano : kano,jigawa
4]Bauchi :bauchi ,gombe
5]Borno : borno,yobe
that's a total of 10 states and frankly speaking, Nigeria would've been better off without them

^^^I'll have to agree with you!

The remaining regions/states/ethnicities are similar in one way or the other: They are not obsessed with grabbing power at the center (even if it means making the country ungovernable to achieve their aim); are not plagued with islamic fundamentalism and a desire not to be governed by infidels those of other faiths; don't have millions of out-of-school kids roaming the streets and looking to carry out the murderous biddings of their benefactors; are making modest but appreciable strides in education, entertainment and sports; are willing to wean themselves off a dependence on federal allocation if given more freedom and control of their resources; and they don't go on a killing spree on a regular basis......looking for other supposed 'fellow countrymen' to stick a dagger in their guts!

So you see.....it's a no-brainer really!