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| Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 10:51am On Jul 05, 2014 |
I caption it 'unfortunate' because that coup was uncalled for and let me make it clear that Buhari will make a good president...Yes i will say it again and again but unfortunately the corrupt forces arrayed against him are enormous.According to my father who lived most of his life in the north,the enemies of Buhari are mostly the northern elite including the Emirs. - idumuose THE COUP DETAT OPERATIONS LAGOS In the morning of August 26th, as Muslims were preparing to go to the Mosque for morning prayers on Sallah day at the Ikeja Cantonment, word came to key players at Tactical levels that the operation was a go, destined for that night.As the day progressed, therefore, strong indications emerged that something was about to happen.Efforts were, therefore, made by the C-in-C, the Commander, Brigade of Guards and the ADC to the C-in-C to find out details and prepare for eventualities. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 10:53am On Jul 05, 2014 |
Lt. Col. Sabo Aliyu, Commander of the Guards Brigade, reportedly kept asking his friend, course-mate and fellow Kano indigene, Lt. Col. H. Akilu, Director of Military Intelligence, if there was any truth to the rumors.They even attended mosque together that Sallah morning.Akilu reportedly assured Sabo Aliyu that it had been investigated and that there was nothing to fear.Part of the confusion, though, was caused by the deliberate“pseudo-false” rumor planted by Military Intelligence operatives to the effect that Colonel Aliyu Mohammed was planning “something” in reaction to his retirement and that soldiers should be ready for internal security to PROTECT the regime.However, in reality, this proactive rumor and game of smoking mirrors was intended as a pretext to allow the full mobilization of troops AGAINST the regime! |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 10:54am On Jul 05, 2014 |
Nevertheless, both Major Jokolo (ADC to the C-in-C) and Col. Sabo Aliyu (Commander, Brigade of Guards) kept shuttling or calling back and forth between Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Ikeja seeking information and checking on the status of units, unaware that they were being monitored by Military Intelligence. Just after 9pm, riding together in Jokolo’s car, on a trip to Ikeja Cantonment, uncomfortably close in time to H-Hour, they were arrested at the gate by soldiers and subalterns from units under Majors John Y. Madaki and Maxwell Khobe, stripped and severely beaten.In fact shots were fired at the Mercedes car and its tires deflated.They were later taken and kept at the Officers Quarters in Bonny Camp - a makeshift transit detention point where, thereafter, they were joined by General Buhari, Ambassador Lawal Rafindadi and General Tunde Idiagbon when the latter returned to the country from Mecca a few days later. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 10:57am On Jul 05, 2014 |
In the meantime , earlier in the day, having failed repeatedly to get Brigadier Abacha, GOC, 2nd Division, on the telephone or by signal, Col. Sabo Aliyu sent Captain Maitama of the Guards Garrison on an errand to drive all the way to Ibadan.He was asked to speak to Abacha personally with a message from the C-in-C to clarify his position.The Captain (who was already part of the conspiracy anyway) returned to Lagos ‘empty handed’, with no reported contact with the GOC. Similarly, the COAS (Babangida) ‘could not be reached’ by the C-in-C, having left Lagos for Minna, allegedly for Sallah. Needless to say, his Military Assistant - Major Aminu - whom he had left behind in Lagos to assist with coordination and operations could reach him although the Head of State could not. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 10:58am On Jul 05, 2014 |
By nightfall, therefore, the grim nature of the situation was clear to General Buhari. His COS, SHQ was outside the country in Saudi Arabia.His COAS was away to Minna and was not returning calls.Neither could he reach the GOC of the 2nd Division.The Commander, Brigade of Guards had disappeared, arrested at Ikeja. He could not even find his own ADC who had also been arrested.Theyoung Garrison Commander he had relied upon to deliver messages to Ibadan suddenly became scarce.The CO of the 6th Battalion at Bonny camp nearby, Lt. Col. Joshua Madaki*, was not on his side.The NSO had no fighting units of its own.The Chairman Joint Chiefs, General Bali, had no Army to command even if he wanted.The Minister of Internal Affairs, General Magoro, had no Internal Affairs Troops of his own either and was certainly not going to deploy Customs or Prisons Officers against the Army.Units from the 3rd Division, far away in Jos where Buhari held his last command before January 1984 were too far away - and as was to transpire later that evening, would shortly be without a GOC anyway.The die was cast and all that remained was for him to wait patiently, surrounded by soldiers from Guards Units of doubtful loyalty at the State House, Dodan Barracks, until daybreak when the curtains fell.The rug symbolizing the machinery of State had been pulled from under his feet. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 10:59am On Jul 05, 2014 |
At H-hour, designated units in Lagos sped toward their objectives. Occupation of vulnerable points or fully mobilized standby status was allotted to officers and soldiers of 123rd Battalion, 245 Recce Bn, 201 Armoured HQ Battalion, the 6th battalion at Bonny Camp and the 93rd battalion at Ojo cantonment. The 123 Battalion (under Major J Madaki) in particular was crucial to securing the tollgate, Lagos State Police Command HQ at Ikeja and the International Airport, in addition to some key road junctions in the mainland area. Although most news reports and commentaries keep describing the August coup as bloodless, it was not.The platoon sent to the Lagos State Police Command HQ, on Oduduwa Street at Ikeja GRA opened fire without provocation at a group of Policemen killing an untold number in the process. 1 Like |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:01am On Jul 05, 2014 |
The 6th Battalion (under Lt. Col. Joshua Madaki) was charged with soft operations and standby on Lagos Island - including securing the eastern approaches to Victoria Island from Epe.The 93rd Battalion at Ojo set up similar observation points along the Badagry Road and in the Port area. Armoured Vehicles and storm troopers from units commanded by Majors Khobe and Bulus were detailed to primarily move to the FRCN Station Ikoyi and State House Dodan Barracks (mainly Khobe), while also providing secondary support in depth to infantry units deployed to the Anthony, Oshodi and Ikeja areas (mainly Bulus).Civilians returning from late night Sallah parties in Surulere were startled to stumble into these vehicles along Western Avenue as they made their way their way to Lagos Island that morning.Just before crossing the Eko Bridge into Lagos Island, machine guns on some of the armoured fighting vehicles were even tested by shooting into the air, thereby unnecessarily creating panic. One soldier's hand was later crushed by an armoured vehicle while trying to open the gate of Dodan Barracks at the launch of that phase of the operation. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:02am On Jul 05, 2014 |
At Dodan Barracks, four young Majors were detailed to arrest the Head of State.They were Majors Umar Dangiwa, Lawan Gwadabe, Abdulmumuni Aminu and Sambo Dasuki.They achieved this without much ado. In fact General Buhari was said to be waiting for them (some say watching events at the gate on close circuit TV) and allegedly gave orders to bewildered soldiers on the premises that the unusual early morning activities of those who came to arrest him were not to be disrupted.He accompanied his captors, initially to Bonny camp from where he was later moved (under House Arrest) to No. 1 Hawkesworth Road, Ikoyi. He was there for less than a week before being moved again, probably to a house in Benin-City. Meanwhile the official premises of the Head of State at State House, Dodan Barracks was ransacked and Buhari’s belongings looted by soldiers. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:04am On Jul 05, 2014 |
Assisted by an unopposed entry into the Radio Station contrived by the Guards Garrison Commander, Colonel Joshua Dogonyaro’s task was to make the crucial radio broadcast at 0600 bringing the regime of Major General Buhari to an end. As daybreak progressed, coup coordinators at Bonny Camp established radio communication with all Divisions and Brigades in the country to obtain situation reports and pledges of loyalty in their areas of responsibility.General Babangida was then contacted in Minna to return to Lagos to take charge and arrangements made for a plane to go and fetch him.At this point bottles of champagne were opened to celebrate the coup.A quick meeting of key plotters took place at the Camp after which there was a further radio broadcast to the nation by Brigadier Sani Abacha at 1300, formally appointing Major General Ibrahim B. Babangida, erstwhile Chief of Army Staff, as the new C-in-C. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:06am On Jul 05, 2014 |
Analytically speaking, it is important to appreciate the deftness that went into the allocation of highly sensitive tasks in Lagos.Four different officers, all independently personally connected and fanatically loyal to the Chief of Army Staff, from three different Corps (Infantry - Aminu, Armour - Umar/Gwadabe and Artillery - Dasuki) were entrusted with the arrest of General Buhari. None had a direct command of their own on the ground at the State House. Theoretically mutually supporting, they were likely also intended (without realizing it) to be watching one another.The two officers with direct command of troops and armoured vehicles (Khobe and Bulus) were not entrusted with the arrest of the C-in-C or the radio announcement. Those entrusted with the Radio announcement (Dogonyaro and Abacha) were not entrusted with the arrest of the C-in-C.The CO of the 6th Battalion (Joshua Madaki) was placed on standby mainly in the Victoria Island area.Although trusted, the CO of the 123 Battalion (John Madaki) whose boys were in control of the Murtala Muhammed Airport into which Babangida was to fly back, had no tactical dominance of either the State House or Radio Station area of operations.In coming to Lagos Island from Ibadan to mingle with other plotters, Brigadier S. Abacha was not in a position to draw directly on his own troops from the 2nd Division at either the State House or the Radio Station.He was dependent on boys from the Brigade of Guards and the Armoured Corps (neither of which he had ever commanded) with no direct independent axis of personal loyalty to him - and his closest Brigade Commander at the 9th Bde, Lt. Col. J. Shagaya, was an IBB boy.In other words, Major General Babangida could fly back to Lagos from Minna confident that he would not be upstaged on arrival and arrested by ambitious fellow conspirators in a coup-within-a-coup as happened to Colonel Anthony Narriman in the movie “Power Play.” |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:07am On Jul 05, 2014 |
Shortly after H-Hour, in Jos, the GOC of the 3rd Armoured Division, then Brigadier Salihu Ibrahim was arrested at home by a team of soldiers led by Lt. Col. Chris Abutu Garuba, then Commander, 34 Self Propelled Artillery Brigade, Jos.The second-in-command of the Recce Battalion at the Rukuba Cantonment, Major Musa Shehu, invited his Commanding Officer, Major Adesina, to a Sallah party at his house.Assisted by the Commander, 3 Div Signals, Major Shehu waited for Major Adesina - a serious and highly professional officer - to relax completely, comfortably sandwiched between two pretty hostesses.Then he called him outside for a “message”.When he came out he was arrested by a group of soldiers, and was even beaten in the process.Unlike his less fortunate colleagues in Lagos, he was not, however, stripped. 1 Like |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:08am On Jul 05, 2014 |
With these two key arrests, the 3rd Armored Division fell into the hands of pro-coup officers.No further resistance was anticipated. KADUNA Operations in Kaduna, base of the 1st Infantry Division, were straightforward.All the key brigades (Minna, Kano and Sokoto) were in the hands of officers sympathetic to the coup or neutral to it. The only excitement was the decision by Major UK Bello to deploy vehicles to block the runway at the AirForce Base. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:12am On Jul 05, 2014 |
ENUGU Enugu, along with the entire 82 Division area of responsibility was quiet.The GOC, Brigadier YY Kure, was certainly not opposed to the coup.Those subordinate officers who were not foretold of the coup simply adopted a wait and see attitude. IBADAN Ibadan was quiet.As previously noted, the GOC, Brigadier S. Abacha was deeply involved in the plot. He left Ibadan shortly after H-Hour for Lagos with most of his Staff Officers.All his Brigade Commanders were onboard.The Bde based at Ikeja - under Shagaya - was active.The Bde in Benin - under Inienger - was on standby. However, the Military Governor of Bendel, Brigadier J Useni . took the extra step of making a public broadcast to “associate himself” with the developments in Lagos. BACK IN LAGOS Upon arrival back to Lagos from Minna, Major General Babangida returned to the Flag Staff House, located in a cul de sac on Second Avenue, Ikoyi.It was at that time the official residence of the Chief of Army Staff.It was from this location that he made the following broadcast to the Nigerian people: http://www.waado.org/nigerdelta/nigeria_facts/MilitaryRule/Omoigui/PalaceCoup-1985II.html Make i stop here... The rest they say is history |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 11:45am On Jul 05, 2014 |
If Buhari had taken a look at the past, he would have realised that in Nigerian politics, and in the Nigerian military, it is those to whom one entrusts his safety that need to be feared most. In January 1966, Prime Minister Balewa was abducted and murdered by soldiers from the Federal Guard: a unit whose primary responsibility was to protect and guarantee the safety of Balewa. Balewa’s successor as Head of State Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi was abducted, tortured and shot dead by soldiers in his own entourage only seven months after the death of Balewa. Aguiyi-Ironsi’s successor General Gowon was overthrown in July 1975, again with the connivance of officers from the Federal Guard – which as in Balewa’s case in 1966, was supposed to protect him. In a stunning act of betrayal, the commanding officer of the Federal Guards Colonel Joe Garba (who was also Gowon’s brother in law) actually made a nationwide television broadcast to announce Gowon’s overthrow. As mentioned above, the officers that overthrew President Shagari were pre-positioned around Nigeria’s nerve centre in Lagos. Had Buhari and Idiagbon paid greater attention to those in their midst, their regime may have survived and Nigeria may have been a different country today. Another factor that may have hastened Buhari and Idiagbon’s fall from power may have been their failure to award plum jobs to the officers who risked their necks in the 1983/4 coup that brought them to power. It was an understood but unwritten rule from the July 1975 coup onwards that soldiers that executed successful coup plots should be rewarded with the bounty of juicy Government postings. Buhari did not adhere to this rule. Although the coup plotters that brought him to power were active in his regime, they were not in the upper echelons. Many of these officers were middle grade officers, and perhaps in an attempt to maintain military hierarchy, Buhari did not want to appoint them to senior Government positions over the heads of more senior officers (who albeit had not played a part in the coup). |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by jking001(m): 11:54am On Jul 05, 2014 |
If this is true it says alot about Buhari, I think,it's either he's not sophisticated and smart enough to handle military politics, if he wasn't successful then and not having people loyal to him he can't have it now, cos it's the same people. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Jakumo(m): 11:57am On Jul 05, 2014 |
While we are on the topic of terrorist sponsor Ayatollah Buhari Bin Laden of the "Blood-will-flow-if-I-lose-this-presidential-election" fame, could someone please be kind enough to ask Buhari if he could oblige the civilized world by ordering his virgin-seeking Boko Haram terror gang subordinates to release the remaining kidnapped school girls not yet killed, before yet more of the girls' parents die from the stress of their ordeal. If the Ayatollah can do just that small favor for Nigeria, his other heinous crimes against humanity, ranging from post-election massacre incitement to treasonable support of fundamentalist slave-raiding rebel hordes, might be forgiven but certainly NOT forgotten by the people of Nigeria, EVEN IF the International Criminal Court ultimately decides that Buhari Bin Laden should still be apprehended and deported to stand trial on charges related to political and sectarian murders already traceable directly to his own specific instructions issued over the past few years. 8 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by egift(m): 11:59am On Jul 05, 2014 |
It is only the very corrupt elites and their servants that are fighting against Buhari. People who have their hands deep down our collective fortunes. For Nigeria to move forward, we need the purposeful and fearless leaders who are free from corruption to lead. The agents of Corruption will keep throwing everything to smear the good name of Buhari just to ensure they install a puppet who will keep their loots continue. God help Nigeria. 4 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Nobody: 12:00pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Buhari made me a supporter of the APC, the only Nigerian i trust. Let me read the whole story self. 2 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by SamIkenna: 12:15pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Jakumo: While we are on the topic of terrorist sponsor Ayatollah Buhari Bin Laden of the "Blood-will-flow-if-I-lose-this-presidential-election" fame, could someone please be kind enough to ask Buhari if he could oblige the civilized world by ordering his virgin-seeking Boko Haram terror gang subordinates to release the remaining kidnapped school girls not yet killed, before yet more of the girls' parents die from the stress of their ordeal. Lol, easy brother. Anyways, is it me or does anyone else notice that this is NNIA (Northern Nigeria's Internal Affairs)? One (secular) Nigeria indeed! 2 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 12:25pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
In fact General Buhari was said to be waiting for them (some say watching events at the gate on close circuit TV) and allegedly gave orders to bewildered soldiers on the premises that the unusual early morning activities of those who came to arrest him were not to be disrupted. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Bialegend(m): 12:26pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
As Head of State and Commander in Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces (some people called it Northern Nigerian Armed Forces), all important command posts were headed by northerners and muslims. The Chief of Army Staff, Naval Staff and Air Staff were all northerners. The Inspector General of police was a northerner, the minister of Federal Capital Territory, the minister for Internal Affairs and all major positions in government were headed by northerners. Indeed, under Buhari, the nation’s affairs, particularly the meetings of the Supreme Military Council could be held and were indeed rumored to have been held on numerous occasions, in Hausa. |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Bialegend(m): 12:31pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
This, in brief, is the historical background of Buhari’s democratic credentials. Then Abacha tried to rehabilitate him by appointing him as the head of the task force on petroleum. At that post, he did his best to help only his kinsmen above the Niger River. Eighty four percent of all projects executed by him were sited in the North and sixteen out of eighteen directorates under Buhari were headed by northerners! More importantly, by taking up such a position under Abacha, had Buhari not lost his moral credibility in terms of corruption which was the hallmark of the Abacha presidency? Was he not an important integral part of the Abacha’s rapacious governance? Had he not given his blessing to the Abacha rampage? Had he not taken part in the suppression of the June 12 Abiola’s electoral victory? Then came the Obasanjo presidency. Obasanjo had pandered more to the interest of his northern power brokers during his first outing as military Head of State. He had preserved, in tact, their unearned privilege and power. And they thought he was fool enough to continue to do so as president during his second coming. When Obasanjo did not follow through, Buhari became the arrow-head of northern dissatisfaction with his government. And naturally, he began to propagate only the interest of his northern constituency to the extent of declaring that muslims should vote only for muslims. He declared his support for Sharia in the northern states and would not mind if that Islamic jurisprudence extends far beyond the northern states into the south. 3 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Nobody: 12:40pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Bialegend: As Head of State and Commander in Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces (some people called it Northern Nigerian Armed Forces), all important command posts were headed by northerners and muslims. The Chief of Army Staff, Naval Staff and Air Staff were all northerners. The Inspector General of police was a northerner, the minister of Federal Capital Territory, the minister for Internal Affairs and all major positions in government were headed by northerners. Indeed, under Buhari, the nation’s affairs, particularly the meetings of the Supreme Military Council could be held and were indeed rumored to have been held on numerous occasions, in Hausa. JANUARY 1984: SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL Name Position State of Origin Major-General Muhammadu Buhari Head of State -Katsina Brigadier (later Major-General) Tunde Idiagbon Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Kwara State Major-General Domkat Bali Defence Secretary Plateau Major-General Ibrahim Babangida Chief of Army Staff Niger Commodore Augustus Aikhomu Chief of Naval Staff Bendel Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa Chief of Air Staff Adamawa Major-General Mamman Jiya Vatsa Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Niger Brigadier Yohanna Kure GOC, 82 Division – Enugu Kaduna Brigadier Ola Oni General Officer Commanding, -Lagos Brigadier Sani Abacha General – Kano Colonel Salihu Ibrahim GOC, 3 rd Mechanised Division – Kaduna Kwara Brigadier Mohammed Magoro Minister of Internal Affairs Sokoto Brigadier Gado Nasko Niger Brigadier Paul Omu Bendel Navy Captain Ebitu Ukiwe Imo Air Commodore Larry Koinyan Rivers 3 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Bialegend(m): 12:41pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Buhari's Cabinet Ministers OFFICE NAME TERM Head of State Muhammadu Buhari 1984–1985 - North Chief of Staff Tunde Idiagbon 1984–1985 - North Defense Domkat Bali 1984–1985 - North Agriculture Bukar Shuaib 1984–1985 - North Trade Mahmud Tukur 1984–1985 - North Communications A Abdullahi, Lt Col 1984–1985 - North Education Yarima Ibrahim 1984–1985 - North Finance Onaolapo Soleye 1984–1985 Abuja Mamman Jiya Vatsa 1984–1985 - North Health Emmanuel Nsan 1984–1985 Internal Affairs Mohammed Magoro 1984–1985 - North Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Gambari 1984–1985 - North Minister of Information Sam Omeruah 1984–1985 Transportation Abdullahi Ibrahim 1984–1985 - North Energy Tam David-West 1984–1985 Justice Chike Offodile 1984–1985 Works Patrick Koshoni 1984–198 3 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Nobody: 12:43pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Bialegend: This, in brief, is the historical background of Buhari’s democratic credentials.SHAMELESS LIES. 2 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Bialegend(m): 12:49pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
The make up of Buhari’s SMC was troubling. Virtually all of the senior positions in the SMC were occupied by northern Muslims: only five of the SMC’s sixteen members were from the south. Additionally, there has always been an unwritten rule that the Nigerian Head of State and his deputy cannot be from the same religion or part of the country. Buhari broke this unwritten rule when he appointed Tunde Idiagbon (who although Yoruba, was from the north and was also a Muslim). The other influential pro-Buhari figure in the regime was the Minister for Internal Affairs: Major-General Mohammed Magoro, who was a Muslim from Buhari’s home state of Sokoto. 2 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Nobody: 12:51pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Bialegend: Buhari's Cabinet Ministersbefore you buy this bullcrap, Google the qualification of these ministers, Bukar Shuaib (minister of agriculture) studied Veterinary medicine at the collegiate level, becoming the first Nigerian Veterinary Doctor. You are a tribalist. 5 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by idumuose(m): 12:55pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Bialegend: Buhari's Cabinet Ministers Ok |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by HisRoyalHardnes(m): 1:00pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Pls tell me the shagari coup story. Buhari is a coup plotter, kidnapper, murderer and thief. 5 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Nobody: 1:01pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Bialegend: The make up of Buhari’s SMC was troubling. Virtually all of the senior positions in the SMC were occupied by northern Muslims: only five of the SMC’s sixteen members were from the south. Additionally, there has always been an unwritten rule that the Nigerian Head of State and his deputy cannot be from the same religion or part of the country. Buhari broke this unwritten rule when he appointed Tunde Idiagbon (who although Yoruba, was from the north and was also a Muslim). The other influential pro-Buhari figure in the regime was the Minister for Internal Affairs: Major-General Mohammed Magoro, who was a Muslim from Buhari’s home state of Sokoto.LIES. The SMC had 15 members other than Buhari, 8 were northerners and 7 were southerners Air Commodore Larry Koinyan Navy Captain Ebitu Ukiwe Brigadier Paul Omu Colonel Salihu Ibrahim - Kwara Brigadier Ola Oni Commodore Augustus Aikhomu Tunde Idiagbon 4 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Bialegend(m): 1:02pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Buhari Calls for 'total' Sharia in Nigeria 2001-08-27 21:32 Lagos - A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of 'total' Islamic law across the country, reports said on Monday. Buhari, who ruled Nigeria from a coup in December 1983 to his ouster in 1985, told a seminar in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, at the weekend that the strict Islamic law code known as the Sharia should be introduced in full across Nigeria. "I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria," Buhari said, quoted in press reports. "God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country," Buhari said. Northern Nigeria is mainly Muslim but southern Nigeria is mainly Christian and has led criticism of the introduction of Islamic law in a dozen northern states in the past 18 months. Africa's most populous country has been shaken repeatedly in the past by religious unrest. In February 2000 between 2 000 and 3 000 people were killed by Christian-Muslim riots in Kaduna over the introduction of Sharia. Call for Sharia across the country Buhari's comments were interpreted by the southern-based papers as a call for the imposition of Sharia all across the country, even in the mainly Christian south. "Buhari calls for Sharia in all states," was the headline of the respected newspaper The Guardian. Buhari's comments were defended by supporters as simply a call for the full implementation of Sharia in areas where Muslims predominated. But the comments are the second by Buhari that have courted controversy after he called earlier this year for Muslims to vote at the next presidential elections only for someone who would defend their faith. This was criticised by the press as a call for voting along religious lines, as well as an attack on the current president, Olusegun Obasanjo, who is a Christian. Buhari made the latest comments at a seminar organised by the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, a newly set up body attended by northern state governments and Islamic scholars. "It is a legal responsibility which God has given us, within the context of one Nigeria, to continue to uphold the practice of Sharia wholeheartedly ... and to educate non-Muslims that they have nothing to fear," he said. "What remains for Muslims in Nigeria is for them to redouble their efforts, educate Muslims on the need to promote the full implementation of Sharia law," he went on. - AFP http://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Calls-for-total-Sharia-in-Nigeria-20010827 5 Likes |
| Re: Details Of The Unfortunate Coup That Ousted Buhari (Aug 1985) by Jakumo(m): 1:04pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
HisRoyalHardnes: Pls tell me the shagari coup story. You forgot to mention that Ayatollah Buhari Bin Laden is a major financier and spokesman for the Boko Haram terror group that is currently tearing Nigeria apart. As you point out so eloquently, Ayatollah Buhari is a most definitely a compulsive thief, serial killer and fundamentalist rabble-rousing instigator for sure. Hopefully that scowling mullah will face international trial at some point for his crimes against humanity, though an "accidental" drone-strike would facilitate a more lasting solution to this menace. 5 Likes |
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