Numbers 7 and 16 below seem familiar, right?

KEY PLAYERS IN SUPPORT OF THE COUP INCLUDED (BUT WERE NOT LIMITED TO):

1. Major General Ibrahim Babangida - Chief of Army Staff (COAS)

2. Brigadier Sani Abacha - GOC, 2nd Mechanised Division, Ibadan

3. Colonel JT Dogonyaro - Director, Department of Armour, Army HQ

4. Colonel Aliyu Mohammed Gusau - former Director, Defence Intelligence Agency

5. Lt. Col. Halilu Akilu - Director of Military Intelligence

6. Lt. Col. Tanko Ayuba - Commander, Corps of Signals

7. Lt. Col. David Mark - Military Governor, Niger State

8. Lt. Col. John Nanzip Shagaya - Commander, 9th Mechanised Brigade

9. Lt. Col. Chris Abutu Garuba - Commander, 34 Self Propelled Artillery Brigade, Jos

10. Lt. Col. Raji Alagbe Rasaki - Commanding Officer, AHQ Garrison and Signals Group, Lagos

11. Col. Anthony Ukpo - Deputy Director, Defence Intelligence Agency, Lagos

12. Major John Madaki - Commanding Officer, 123 Guards Battalion, Ikeja

13. Major Abdulmumuni Aminu - Military Assistant to the COAS

14. Major Lawan Gwadabe - just back from US Armour School, Fort Knox, returning to 245 Recce Battalion where he was the former Commanding Officer

15. Major Abubakar Dangiwa Umar - General Staff Officer (1), Department of Armour, AHQ, then Chairman Federal Housing Authority

16. Major Mohammed Sambo Dasuki, Staff Officer, HQ Corps of Artillery (and son of Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, who later became the 17th Sultan of Sokoto).

17. Major Maxwell Khobe-Commanding Officer, 245 Recce Battalion, Ikeja

18. Major UK Bello-Commanding Officer, 202 Recce Battalion, Kaduna

19. Major Kefas Happy Bulus-Commanding Officer, Armour Headquarters Company (201-Administrative-Unit) Ikeja

20. Major Sule Ahman, Supply and Transport, Ikeja Cantonment

21. Major Musa Shehu (2ic to the Commanding Officer, Recce Battalion in Jos)

22. Captain Nuhu Umaru- 2ic, 202 Recce Battalion, Kaduna

So?

@op
what do u intend 2 gain from this? Confusion?

@op
what do u intend 2 gain from this? Confusion? Mtcheeew

Really old news. Sambo Dasuki became IBB's ADC, but he was later "sent to the US" to protect him from Sani Abacha and Mariam Babangida (UK Bello became ADC).

David Mark was a governor and later minister for communications in IBB's government.

bigtt76: So?

You beat me to it