Today marks the 40 years of the death of General Murtala Muhammed

General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was the military ruler of Nigeria from 1975 until his assassination in 1976.
Born on November 8, 1938, Kano
Assassinated on February 13, 1976, in Lagos by Dimka Coup
He was Succeeded by General Olusegun Obasanjo

Nigeria Let us have some time to reflect on the life of this man and 40 years after.

That guy would have been a bigger tyrant ( all Nigerian soldiers are potential ones), just that he ruled for only 6 months are never had much time to unleash his true colours on Nigerians.

I do not have any reason to celebrate any Nigerian that participated in any coup or counter coup as all coupists are criminals.

God bless Nigeria.

The best leader Nigeria ever had.

luvinhubby:
That guy would have been a bigger tyrant ( all Nigerian soldiers are potential ones), just that he ruled for only 6 months are never had much time to unleash his true colours.

I do not have any reason to celebrate any Nigerian that participated in any coup or counter coup as all coupists are criminals.

God bless Nigeria.

thank U for this observation.
This is the major reason Buhari was never an option for me cos he had participated in d overthrow of a democratically elected govt and of course,once a dictator, always a dictator.

The slayer of innocent Asaba One Nigeria Celebrants

luvinhubby:
That guy would have been a bigger tyrant ( all Nigerian soldiers are potential ones), just that he ruled for only 6 months are never had much time to unleash his true colours.

I do not have any reason to celebrate any Nigerian that participated in any coup or counter coup as all coupists are criminals.

God bless Nigeria.

Not all of them tho

Roks:


Not all of them tho

Mention one, just one Nigerian political millitary officer that has no dictatorial tendency.

luvinhubby:
That guy would have been a bigger tyrant ( all Nigerian soldiers are potential ones), just that he ruled for only 6 months are never had much time to unleash his true colours.

I do not have any reason to celebrate any Nigerian that participated in any coup or counter coup as all coupists are criminals.

God bless Nigeria.

It depends. He also kicked off the return to democracy...that ended in the Second Republic. (Indeed,one of the reasons for overthrowing Gowon was because Gowon said that a 1976 return to democracy was no longer feasible).Obasanjo just merely completed the democracy project started by Murtala

He was also very tough on corruption, and he himself returned his own stolen loot back to the treasury.

One other thing....he was accused by a newspaper of using armed soldiers to loot a bank...and he....went to court, and sued them for libel. And won his case.(Note..how many army leaders have gone to court before or since)

Yes coups are illegal. But in my opinion, the reason why they succeed is because Nigerians sit down at home and do nothing. And also because the political class too make a mess of things.(See the Second Republic....where corruption was a real problem).

Happy death day.

...HEARD HE WAS A GOOD MAN

UNLIKE ...

Tyrant.

Adminisher:
The best leader Nigeria ever had.

FALSE!
That title goes to Gowon

To me, this was the only head of state that made sense!

Adminisher:
The best leader Nigeria ever had.

To me d best Military Leader should have bin Sir Aguyi Ironsi, his actions spoke for one Nigeria

I see no reason to celebrate this murderer. He was a major culprit in the asaba killings.

Murtala Muhammed International airport !!!!!

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adipemcanis1:
He was also very tough on corruption, and he himself returned his own stolen loot back to the treasury.

One other thing....he was accused by a newspaper of using armed soldiers to loot a bank...and he....went to court, and sued them for libel. And won his case.(Note..how many army leaders have gone to court before or since)

It will be greatly appreciated if you could provide credible links to these statements.
Thanks.

NL's living encycloaepidia, Naptu2 is needed here.

anonimi:

FALSE! That title goes to Gowon

Anonimi wake up!! You don piss for bed!

Were Dinka iwo lo pa muri... Dt is how will use to sing it then..

dokiOloye:
thank U for this observation.
This is the major reason Buhari was never an option for me cos he had participated in d overthrow of a democratically elected govt and of course,once a dictator, always a dictator.

buhari did not actively participate in the coup..he just benefited from it...imillitary regimes in africa countries are generally better than democratic desposition...case study...ghadaffi and mugabe!!!!

ChappyChase:
Anonimi wake up!! You don piss for bed!

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Wetin him do special. Still naija jagajaga till now

Nothing to celebrate here as all our past leaders in each of their own ways contributed to the mess we find ourselves in.

anonimi:


FALSE!
That title goes to Gowon

Even Gowon will gv the title to Muritala

Why shld we celebrate him?

babyfaceafrica:
buhari did not actively participate in a coup..he ust benefitted from it...do your research!!!!!

Biggest LIE about the PRETENTIOUS crook who is renting Aso Rock villa till may 29, 2019 from us.

Sibabasibaba1:
APC e-maggots say GMB was not part of the planning of the 1983 coup that sacked Shagari's government. They tell us that he was, in fact, invited by the planners to become head of state after the coup. Well, in this abridged interview, Tanko Yakassai insists that Buhari was fully aware of the plot and that some of the meetings of the coup plotters, were, in fact, held in his then residence in Jos.
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Q. Let’s go back to the issue of coup, we were on it before we diverted to your stay in prison. Where were we?

In the book I was telling you about, they said Obasanjo told Umaru Shinkafi, that shortly after the election of 1979, some military officers went to him and informed him not to hand over to Shagari. Obasanjo told them that he had already told the world he was going to hand over power, and that he inherited the office, after a coup attempt that was not successful. He stated that his predecessor promised to hand over, and it means he must hand over.

Obasanjo also told them that he has initiated an election process which was successful. Shagari won, people went to court and he won there as well. ‘So on what grounds should I tell the world I would not hand over to him? Who do you even want me to hand over to? And they said, ’hand over to Buhari’!’

So even before power was handed over to Shagari, the military attempted to steal it and hand over to Buhari. So it wasn’t about bribery and corruption or not to hand over to Alex Ekwueme. I am not the first person to say this; the boys who published Shagari’s book said it first. But, I have also relayed it in my book. And I will give you a copy to go and read.

And since his assumption of power by Shagari, there were several attempts to topple him until they eventually succeeded. It was revealed in that book that the military had attempted to stage a coup even before the second election in 1983. They sought the advice of one of their senior officer who had retired, he told them he supported the idea of a coup, but if they did it before the election, Awolowo would say it was because he was billed to win the election, and the Yoruba owns the newspapers and most editors at the time were also Yoruba and so they would give it widespread publicity such that the world would reject the coup. He advised them to let the election take place first, before they do whatever they want to do.

There was also a revelation in the book that General Domkat Bali’s wife thought her husband was having an affair when she noticed that he always came home late, unlike him. When her suspicion became too much, one day he told her that he was not having an affair, but he was always coming back late because they were meeting in Buhari’s house to stage a coup. Buhari was the GOC in Jos at the time, and he told her not to tell anyone. Incidentally, Domkat Bali’s wife is related to the wife of Solomon Lar, the then Governor of Plateau State. She realised that a coup would affect her relatives’ husband, and she could not take it, because she feared he could be killed. So, she told Lar’s wife, and Lar’s wife also told her husband. It happened that Shagari was going to open the school in Kuru. Solomon told Shagari that he had something to tell him, but Shagari advised him to wait until after the event.

After the event, Solomon Lar told Shagari what he was told at the Presidential lodge in Jos, he mentioned Domkat Bali’s wife as the source of the information. Lar said he had wanted to bring up the issue at the meeting of the National Security Committee, but when he realised that he is not the Commander in Chief, he thought it best to wait, since Shagari is also coming to Jos. Shagari now informed Solomon Lar to go and tell Buhari that this is what he heard, that he was planning a coup. But Lar said I can only do that if you let me inform him that the message came from you. Shagari agreed to that. So when they met with Buhari while they were seeing off President Shagari, Solomon Lar excused Buhari aside and said he wanted to see him, and would come see him at home. But Buhari said how can you a governor come to my house? Lar insisted that he would go. So he went to Buhari’s house and informed him that it was Shagari that sent him to let him know that there was a rumour going round that they were planning a coup.

Buhari said it was not true, there was nothing like that. He asked Lar to go and assure Shagari that it was not true. After Lar left, Buhari called Umaru Shinkafi because they were friends and asked him to meet as soon as possible in Kaduna. Umaru Shinkafi informed Shagari and he was given an aircraft to take him to Kaduna. When they met, Buhari told Shinkafi that he was going to retire since the Commander in Chief does not trust him anymore. There was a time, the military authorities wanted Buhari transferred to Abeokuta but people like Umaru Dikko kicked against it because they said bringing someone like Buhari closed to the seat of power is dangerous. That was why Shagari asked that Buhari be transferred to Jos.

He was very angry with that decision because he felt, he was not trusted. So the second incident made him tell Shinkafi that he was going to retire, since no one trusted him anymore. Shinkafi, in his capacity as the Security Adviser to Shagari, informed Buhari that he knew the president trusted Buhari, so he should not think of retiring. He went back and informed Shagari that Buhari said he should not worry; there was no cause for alarm.

That was what prompted Buhari’s group; they realised that the issue had begun to leak, so they had to strike early. But even before this incident, they had also planned to topple the government on the day Shagari was sworn-in for his second term. In fact Umaru Shinkafi even though did not come out to tell the president that he suspects something was wrong, advised the president to wear a bullet proof vest on his way to the inauguration. Shagari asked him why? I will not wear it. It got to a point Umaru Shinkafi was even shedding tears before Shagari agreed to wear it. In the book, they quoted Babangida as saying they were aware of all this, but Shagari’s people did not know that plans had changed.

Before then, all plans had been perfected and a plane had even been dispatched to Jos to fetch Buhari with instruction to wear his full military regalia, and text of his national speech was already given to him for his inputs before 1st October, 1983. Why they changed their minds, no one knows.This means that they had planned the coup even before the one Solomon Lar got wind of and informed Shagari.


(The interview was granted in Hausa to Rariya newspaper and PREMIUM TIMES has the former’s permission to publish in English).


SOURCE; http://premiumtimesng.com/news/150148-exclusive-why-dying-yaradua-was-sneaked-into-nigeria-without-jonathans-knowledge-tanko-yakasai.html

The relatives of those he killed in Asaba should come and show their good wishes. Nonsense mass murderer.

in sane societies nobody celebrate the deeds of adorf Hitler....
but here in Nigeria we are remembering a man who massacred innocent civilians