http://www.authorityngr.com/2017/01/51-YEARS-AFTER--NZEOGWU-COUP---Buhari-s-1983-coup-was-to-derail-Igbo-presidency--Ezeife

Babangida’s 1999 plot blocked second chance

Elder statesman, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has provided some fresh insights into the 1983 military coup d’etat led by Gen. Muhammadu Buha­ri, which overthrew the demo­cratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari.
The Buhari coup of 1983 was meant to short-change the Igbo people and keep them out of the presidency – a ploy which has continued till today.
Ezeife affirms that the key objective of the1983 military coup, which sacked the Second Republic’s President Shagari and enthroned Gen. Buhari, was to prevent former Vice President Alex Ekwueme from succeeding Shagari, hence derailing the emergence of a president of Igbo extraction – 24 years after the country’s civil war.

Ezeife, an astute politician, Havard-trained economist and former governor of Anambra State, expressed these views in an exclusive interview with The AUTHORITY newspaper at the weekend, on the heels of the 51st Anniversary of the nation’s first military coup.
According to Ezeife, “The then ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN) had already re­solved that Dr. Alex Ekwueme, who was the Vice President, would be given automatic pres­idential ticket, an arrangement which didn’t go down well with the political elite in the North, prompting the Northern mil­itary officers to stage a coup against the Shehu Shagari ad­ministration which was already doing a second term in office.”
Providing further insights into what he saw as the unend­ing travails of Ndigbo in the post-war Nigerian state, the blunt-speaking and politician and economist revealed that the 1999 intervention by Gen. Ibra­him Babangida, which installed Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, was also a northern script to pre­vent former Vice President Ek­wueme from succeeding former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.
Ezeife said: “The Buhari coup was meant to prevent the handover of power to Ekwueme. Then, this time again, the par­ty we formed – we are the G-34 who formed the People’s Dem­ocratic Party (PDP). The party gave Ekwueme the candidacy unopposed, unchallenged”.
“Ekwueme, in considera­tion of fairness of the Ndigbo, said no; let’s go for a proper pri­mary. Weeks to that proper pri­mary, my friend and big help­er, Babangida, thought of how to get back to power.


“He went and made a deal with Obasanjo that he wants to step aside and after four years of Obasanjo he returns. That was how what was for Ekwueme was given to Obasanjo. So, that was what happened to us”.
Taking a look at the big na­tional picture, Ezeife noted the 1914 North-South amalgama­tion by the British was to use Southern resources to cover the deficit in the North but observed that even today, the resource gap was even wider, a scenario that makes the North more desper­ate for resources than the South.

His words: “What was the immediate cause of amalgama­tion? It was to use the surplus re­sources of the South to cover the deficit of the North. What did the amalgamation do? It took Igbo resources, Igbo ability to develop the whole.
“That’s what amalgamation achieved. The resource gap to­day is wider than what it was in 1914, with the North more des­perate for resources than the South”.
The AUTHORITY recalls that the military coup of Decem­ber 31, 1983, which was coordi­nated by key officers of the Ni­gerian military, led to the ouster of the democratically-elected government of Shagari and the installation of Maj. Gen. Bu­hari (then General Officer Com­manding, 3rd Armoured Divi­sion, Jos) as the Head of State.
Meanwhile, Babangida’s al­leged intervention in 1999 led to the emergence of Obasanjo, against the much-anticipated as­cendancy of Ekwueme, the ar­rowhead of the G-34 that mor­phed into the PDP.


The later scenario is viewed by some observers as a strate­gic pacification project of the South West by the North, fol­lowing the nullification of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola’s earlier “success­ful” presidential bid and mount­ing threats of secession by the re­gion.
More than 46 years after the Nigeria-Biafra fratricidal civil war, the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria remain the only major tribe in the country which has not held power at the presiden­cy – whether in military or ci­vilian garb.

Make una leave Sai Baba alone naa, na only una, na una pastors dey see bad visions up and down. Bad belle people.

I have always known the children of hate and anger, now I can see the father of hate and anger. If the reason for the coup was to stop Ibos from being Nigeria's president, then the coup would have occurred towards the end of Shagari's regime and not few months into Shagari's second term. This man called Ezeife is the father of hate and anger and he is going to be angry for a very long time and finally die of hypertension.

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WorldRichest:
I have always known the children of hate and anger, now I can see the father of hate and anger. If the reason for the coup was to stop Ibos from being Nigeria's president, then the coup would have occurred towards the end of Shagari's regime and not few months into Shagari's second term. This man called Ezeife is the father of hate and anger and he is going to be angry for a very long time and finally die of hypertension.

my man that's what I first thought when I was reading this news. The second aspect is the one he says IBB step down for Obasanjo. If I may ask, from which year IBB step down to which year obasanjo became the democratic president? In fact this is when sonekan and Abacha have ruled before Abdul Salam conducted election. Shai!!! This man can lie. Being a doctor of economics does not mean u have a common sense.

Still living in the past

These muslim yorubas self, always masturbating on any news emenating from southeast. But will hide when the news about the release of the killer of their sister hit airways.......pathetic

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Presidiotbuhari:
These muslim yorubas self, always masturbating on any news emenating from southeast. But will hide when the news about the release of the killer of their sister hit airways.......pathetic

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Cannibals as usual.

madridguy:
I tell you broda, they are born to hate

I always knew that you were a tribalist...

J

Typing.....brb

Ngozi123:


I always knew that you were a tribalist...

sarrki:
Maka why nah

Even canary bird cannot sing more than this

Asking for too much in place you called zoo

Maka why nah

i really thought u are educated. Now I know that education can't eradicate foolishness from the fulani man. Just like bubu.

99% of this nation's problems can be traced (directly/indirectly) to political AGIPs that have lost their access to the political buffet table and for want of something to do and also an opportunity to keep getting their names in the press, keep making thoughtless and unguarded statements/speeches!!

Unfortunately, we have too many brainless twits who do live in perpetual victim mode , believe they are hated/marginalised (their actions should never be taken into account), also do not have the gumption to sieve through info, will not read/research to save their own lives and therefore will swallow this misrepresentation of verifiable fact hook, liner, sinker & the fisherman as well!!!!

If this man gets a small position today, the song will change!! Ifeanyi Ubah was TAN in 2015, 2016 wetin be TAN? Even Peter Obi is doing a volte face already, asking not to be pitted against the president!!!! Loyalty is dead! Na wah!!

Na wah!

Who doesn't know that Buhari is a tribalist.... A nepotic president and an enemy of democracy
Buhari is a mistake
Buharis destiny is to punish Nigerians
We never had it this bad

Chapter5ivez:
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Cannibals as usual.

Yoruba Muslim how much abokii dey pay you

So what if Igbo's turn to Presidency was truncated? If Ekwueme had succeeded Shagari we would have had another scenario similar to Azikiwe regime where everywhere was flooded with Ibo in deficit of other regions. Isnt that what happened under Johnathan? Even though he was Ijaw he brought them too close and before you can blink they had infested and ruined his regime.

Good riddance to Ekwueme!

Ngozi123:


I always knew that you were a tribalist...

But you are a diplomat abi? Odiegwu!

BUHARI PLOTTED COUP....

SHEBI THAT IS NOT TREASON NI?


YET YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO DETAIN NNAMDI KANU

Imagine the way an elderly man is talking trash.

Buhari and his colleagues wanted power, it was not about Igbo presidency! Even if Ekwueme became President, what would have stopped the military from over throwing him?

Igbos politicians are worthless and shameless set of people. No iota of honour nor ideology among them. They just follow the food even if they have to unirate on Ojukwu's head to satisfy their gluttony.
After making GEJ lose the 2014 eletion see how they've dumped him.
Shame! Shame!! Shame!!!
Isn't it ironical that a bunch of retards that claim they want a country cannot run a party?

The rate at which Yoruba girls doing house girl job here in North Africa precisely Egypt is becoming alarming,cant the afoja's do something about it coz if care is not taken,there won't be ewedu & amala babes for them to service in Marijo,midaleke,Ibadan,ilesa,etc

sarrki:
Maka why nah

Even canary bird cannot sing more than this

Asking for too much in place you called zoo

Maka why nah

Omidina olayemi my yoruba muslim brother. We must live with the Iboes by fire by force. Biafra means hunger for us in oshogbo.
We must also beg for alms from NLders in order to survive baba's chanji agenda.

Presidiotbuhari:
These muslim yorubas self, always masturbating on any news emenating from southeast. But will hide when the news about the release of the killer of their sister hit airways.......pathetic

We yoruba muslims avoided the thread where our christian sisters' killers were released because we believe it was right for our hausa and fulani masters to kill her since she is a christian kaffir.

As a yoruba muslims we consider the hausa muslims as real brothers than our kaffir christian yoruba brothers. She deserves to die as a kaffir Christian and her killers our muslim hausa brothers have no case to answer. I must speak our yoruba muslim mind.

midol:


Omidina olayemi my yoruba muslim brother. We must live with the Iboes by fire by force. Biafra means hunger for us in oshogbo.
We must also beg for alms from NLders in order to survive baba's chanji agenda.

Nna. ...we frustrated ipod zombie jews must leave our erosion savaged land and run as usual to the to car park everyday to enter ekene dili chukwu to South west to live with Afonjas that we love to hate

midol:


We yoruba muslims avoided the thread where our christian sisters' killers were released because we believe it was right for our hausa and fulani masters to kill her since she is a christian kaffir.

As a yoruba muslims we consider the hausa muslims as real brothers than our kaffir christian yoruba brothers. She deserves to die as a kaffir Christian and her killers our muslim hausa brothers have no case to answer. I must speak our yoruba muslim mind.

You know that we frustrated ipod zombie jews deny our fulani hausa masters online because of the shame but not withstanding as a proud member of the frustrated ipod zombie jew we know our alligiance in real life will always be to our hausa fulani masters. ....if na lie, is it not a hausa fulani man PDP is bringing out in 2019 and we frustrated ipod zombie jews must support our fulani hausa master like we have been doing since Azikwe days