₦airaland Forum

It is only the indomie generation that will call the 1966 coup an Igbo coup.
Let them keep editing history to deceive the younger generation.
I saw a list on nairaland recently where the names of the officer's that plotted the 1966 coup was posted.
What a shame and deception that some Northerners names were omitted from the list.
Keep editing history.
You cannot edit the TRUTH.

Both Ameachi and Tinubu are hypocrites.

All Kidnapper's deserve a jungle justice.
Stop wasting time and our resources by taking them to court.
What a huge lost.
A Master Warrant Officer (MWO) should be close to his retirement.
May God comfort the family in a trying time like this.
Rest in Peace to the Soldier.

Fake UNITY.
They are never tired of suffering.
Those APC sycophants are the ones confusing the gullibles in Delta state.
If you like vote for Tinubu again.
This time you people will eat sand.

tishbite43:
Do you realize that Abacha would have taken over power after quashing the coup d'etat in 1989?
He was already in charge. He just brought back IBB.

Sir, please go down memory lane again and again.
Abacha counter the coup.
Any attempt for Abacha to use that opportunity to take over Government would have led to a more bloodied coup.
Remember there were other Service Chief's that were still Ahead of Abacha and Senior to him.
The likes of General Domkat Bali.
If you listen to Abacha's speech after frustrating the Gideon Orka coup, it was obvious Abacha did the needful to prove his loyalty to IBB.
So there was no way Abacha would have taken over government suddenly.

ValarDoharis:
IBB is blaming Abacha because he is dead.

All past military head of states should not be recognized as past heads of states but coupists

God bless you great mind.

Speech of General Ibrahim Babangida when he annulled the June 12, 1993 Election.

Date: June 26, 1993

Fellow Nigerians,

I address you today with a deep sense of world history and particularly of the history of our great country. In the aftermath of the recently annulled Presidential Election, I feel, as I believe you yourself feel, a profound sense of disappointment at the outcome of our last efforts at laying the foundation of a viable democratic system of government in Nigeria .

I therefore wish, on behalf of myself and members of the National Defence and Security Council and indeed of my entire administration, to feel with my fellow countrymen and women for the cancellation of the election. It was a rather disappointing experience in the course of carrying through the last election of the transition to civil rule programme.

Nigeria has come a long way since this administration assumed power and leadership about eight years ago. In the attempt to grapple with the critical and monumental problems and challenges of National existence and social progress, this administration inaugurated and pursued sound and justifiable policies and programmes of reform.

These policies and programmes have touched virtually all aspects of our national life – the economy, political process, social structures, external relations, bureaucracy and even the family system. I believe strongly that in understanding, conception,
formulation and articulation, these policies and programmes are not only sound but also comparatively unassailable. I believe too that history, with the passage of time, would certainly score the administration high in its governance of our country.

Let me also express my deep conviction that the core strategy and structures of our reform policies and programmes, as enunciated in 1986/87 would, for a very long time, remain relevant and durable in the course of changing our country positively. I believe that at the exit of the Administration from power, we would leave behind for
prosperity, a country with an economy, the structures of which have been turned around for good. The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. The days are gone for good, when men and women trooped to government establishments for employment and for benevolence.

This administration has built the foundation that would take Nigerians away from their previous colonially-induced motivations and the encumbrances of colonialism. We have laid the foundation for self-reliant economic development and social justice. We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. In all these, the average Nigerian person has more than ever before this administration imbibed and assimilated the values of hard work, resilience and self-confidence.

It is true that in the course of implementing our reform policies and programmes and especially because of the visionary zeal with which we approached the assignment and responded to incidental pressures of governance, we engendered a number of social forces in the country.

This is so because we sought to challenge and transform extant social forces which had in the past impeded growth and development of our country. We also sought to deal with the new forces to which our programmes of action gave rise. Thus in dealing with the dynamics of both the old and new social forces, we ran into certain difficulties.

In particular, during the course of handling the interlocking relationships between the old and new political forces and institutions, some problems had arisen leading us into a number of difficulties and thereby necessitating our having to tamper with the
rules and regulations laid down in the political programme. As a result, the administration unwittingly attracted enormous public suspicions of its intentions and objectives. Accordingly, we have experienced certain shortfalls and conflicting responses to the pulls and pushes of governance in the course of policy implementation.

I believe that areas of difficulties with the transition programme, especially from the last quarter of 1992 to the recent cancelled presidential election, derived primarily from the shortfalls in implementing the programmes of actions which, though objectively taken, may have caused a deviation from the original framework and
structure of the programme.

Fellow Nigerians, it is true that by the cancelled presidential election, we all found the nation at a peculiar bar of history which was neither bargained for, nor was it envisaged in the reform programmes of transition as enunciated in 1986/87. In the
circumstance, the administration had no option than to respond appropriately to the unfortunate experience of terminating the presidential election. Our actions are in full conformity with the original objectives of the transition to civil programme. It was also
in conformity with the avowed commitment of the administration to advance the cause of national unity, stability, and democracy. In annulling the presidential election, this administration was keenly aware of its promise in November 1992 that it would disengage and institute a return to democracy on August 27, 1993. We are
determined to keep the promise.

Since this transition, and indeed any transition, must have an end, I believe that our transition programme should and must come to an end, honestly and honourably.

History will bear witness that as an administration we have always striven, in all our policy decisions, to build the foundation of lasting democracy. Lasting democracy is not a temporary show of excitement and manipulation by an over-articulate section of the elite and its captive audience; lasting democracy is a permanent diet to nurture the soul of the whole nation and the political process.

Therefore, it is logical, as we have always insisted upon, that lasting democracy must be equated with political stability.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. As an administration, we cannot afford to leave Nigerian into a Third Republic with epileptic convulsions in its democratic health. Nigeria must therefore confront her own reality; she must solve her problems notwithstanding
other existing models of democracy in other parts of the world.

In my address to the nation in October 1992, when the first presidential primaries were cancelled, I had cause to remind our country men and women that there is nowhere iin the world in which the practice of democracy is the same, even if the principles are similar and even for countries sharing the same intellectual tradition and cultural foundation. The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. Yet, in spite of the uniqueness and peculiarities of Nigeria, there are certain prerequisites which constitute an
irreducible minimum for democracy. Such essential factors include:

A. Free and fair elections;
B. Uncoerced expression of voters preference in election;
C. Respect for electorate as unfettered final arbiter on elections;
D. Decorum and fairness on the part of the electoral umpires;
E. Absolute respect for the rule of law.

Fellow Nigerians, you would recall that it was precisely because the presidential primaries of last year did not meet the basic requirements of free and fair election that the Armed Forces Ruling Council, the, had good reason to cancel those primaries. The recently annulled presidential election was similarly afflicted by
these problems.

Even before the presidential elections, and indeed at the party conventions, we had full knowledge of the bad signals pertaining to the enormous breach of the rules and regulations of democracy elections. But because we were determined to keep faith with the deadline of 27th August 1993 for the return of civil rule, we overlooked the reported breaches. Unfortunately, these breaches continued into the presidential election of June 12, 1993, on an even greater proportion.

There were allegations of irregularities and other acts of bad conduct leveled against the presidential candidates but NEC went ahead and cleared them. There were proofs as well as documented evidence of widespread use of money during the party primaries as well as the presidential election. These were the same bad conduct
for which the party presidential primaries of 1992 were cancelled.

Evidence available to government put the total amount of money spent by the presidential candidates as over two billion , one hundred million naira (N2.1 billion). The use of money was again the major source of undermining the electoral process.

Both these allegations and evidence were known to the National Defence and Security Council before the holding of the June 12, 1993 election, the National Defence and Security Council overlooked these areas of problems in its determination to fulfill the promise to hand over to an elected president on due date.

Apart from the tremendous negative use of money during the party primaries and presidential elections, there were moral issues which were also overlooked by the Defence and National Security Council. There were cases of documented and confirmed conflict of interest between the government and both presidential aspirants which would compromise their positions and responsibilities were they to become
president. We believe that politics and government are not ends in themselves. Rather, service and effective amelioration of the condition of our people must remain the true purpose of politics.

It is true that the presidential election was generally seen to be free, fair and peaceful. However, there was in fact a huge array of election malpractices virtually in all the states of the federation before the actual voting began. There were authenticated reports of the election malpractices against party agents, officials of the National Electoral Commission and also some members of the electorate.

If all of these were clear violations of the electoral law there were proofs of manipulations through offer and acceptance of money and other forms of inducement against officials of the National Electoral Commission and members of the electorate. There were also evidence of conflict in the process of authentication and clearance of credentials of the presidential candidates. Indeed, up to the last few hours to the election, we continued in our earnest steadfastness with our transition deadline, to overlook vital facts.

peace and stability of our country for this is the only country that you and I can call our own. Nowhere in the world, no matter the prompting and inducements of foreign countries, can Nigerians ever be regarded as first class citizens. Nigeria is the only country that we have. We must therefore renew our hope in Nigeria, and faith and confidence in ourselves for continued growth, development and progress.

Thank you all, and God bless you.

Useless mandate that brought NIGERIANS to suffering's wetin one year in office.
Even the Tinubu himself do not believe in that deceptive mandate.
I have a video when some young supporter's were singing that song for Tinubu, and Tinubu asked them to shut up.
Because he himself knows that the mandate is destruction.

Peterobiisathie:
I’m old enough to be your fada

If you are old enough to be my father and you still come here to post nonsense and senseless comments.
Sorry, is obvious you lived a wasted life.
Because anyone of my father's age right now will talk sense like an elder.
Sorry for a wasted destiny.
May God restore your life even in your miserable old age.

tishbite43:
This is bigger than you
Abacha saved him from the Gideon Orkar coup
As a matter of fact, Abacha was the de facto Head of State

Agreed Abacha aborted the Gideon Orka coup. That was part of his duty and responsibilities to his superior Officer and Commander in Chief and as a serving GOC.
In case you don't know, the Gideon Orka coup was plotted by junior officers.
It means, if the coup had succeeded, all the officer's from the rank of Lt Colonel upwards will have gone down which would have included Abacha.
So Abacha also technically saved himself and his job.
Oga, Abacha was never a defacto Head of State.
IBB ruled NIGERIA like an Emperor.
He was the most powerful president in Africa throughout his reign in government.
IBB was fully in charge of his game and plans.
He masterminded everything that played out during his regime.
Remember the figurative words he used when he finally bowed to pressure.
He said and I quote - I STEP ASIDE.
IBB was a master planner.
One of the best military intelligence officer The NIGERIA Army have ever produced.
From 1966, as a young Army officer, IBB was already involved in military coup in Nigeria.
I will be the last person to fall to his 80 years old lies.

ElevationD:
But your initial comment did not show that you knew what you were talking about.

Why will I not know what I am talking about.
For IBB to come up after 32 year's to lay allegations on Abacha, that Abacha annulled the June 12 election is a baseless lies that can only be told in the absence of General Sani Abacha.
IBB was fully in charge of his game and plans
When IBB perceived a purported coup from his very course mate who both of them were of the same rank, General Mamman Vatsa, IBB dealt decisively with Vatsa and despite their childhood friendship, IBB executed Mamman Vatsa.
I have an audio that was recorded by Vatsa shortly before he was executed.
IBB was dreaded and feared by all.
He ruled NIGERIA like an emperor.
In 1993, IBB was still the most powerful president in Africa, and under his nose, nobody will annulled an election without his consent.
The same IBB after 32 year's is now telling lies that Abacha who was his far junior in the Army, wanted to remove him from power. That is an allegation of an attempted coup.
So why did IBB not deal with Abacha the same way he dealt with Mamman Vatsa?
Abacha is IBB far junior in the Army.
You can see by this attached picture.
IBB have spent over 10 year's as a Major General while Abacha was still a Brigadier.
We all saw the body language of IBB that he never wanted to handover power.
After much pressure, IBB lastly use this words - I STEP ASIDE.
Is too late for IBB to come up and tell lies over a man who is long dead.
I was part of the June 12 protest.
Others may fall for his lies, but not me.

Peterobiisathie:
you mumu die

How old were you in 1993?
1993, were you a registered voter?
Not until you answer my question, I will regard you as a bastard whose brain 🧠 is made of gari.

There are 2 living person's that knows many of the dirty secrets of IBB.
One is Buhari, while the other is General Useni who died recently.
Infact IBB waited for Useni who was General Abacha's best friend to die first before he released his series of lies against Abacha.
IBB Knows Buhari knows the dark truth, that was why he did not invite Buhari.
Even at Old Age, IBB is still an acidic lier.

IBB Lies from the pit of hell 🔥.
That book is a bunch of deception and hypocrisy.
See what a Commander in Chief is saying.
IBB was the Commander in Chief and also in rank senior to Abacha.
Why did he not deal with Abacha the ruthless way he dealt with Mamman Vatsa.
Is so unfortunate that people of high caliber will gather to listen to such acidic lies of 32 year's.
IBB is yet to tell NIGERIANS the real TRUTH.

The brainless jihadist will claim that the Allah they do not know is in support of the evil and wickedness they are committing.
Why will Israel not eliminate these cowards.
Ride on Israel, the Lord is with you.

They keep wasting time on this kind of vampire's.
People who deserves jungle justice, they will be wasting their time to take them to court.

IBB Lies from the pit of hell 🔥.
That book is a bunch of deception and hypocrisy.
See what a Commander in Chief is saying.
IBB was the Commander in Chief and also in rank senior to Abacha.
Why did he not deal with Abacha the ruthless way he dealt with Mamman Vatsa.
Is so unfortunate that people of high caliber will gather to listen to such acidic lies of 32 year's.
IBB is yet to tell NIGERIANS the real TRUTH.

Thought Ambode is a pure EPE man.

See what an ex general who was Commander in Chief is saying.
Even at Old abey, this man have refused to stop telling lies and be useless.
I will not be shocked if the Abacha family respond to this allegations from IBB to get last days mercy from Nigerians.

Useless men who stole NIGERIA.
Over 70 years ago they have started patronizing witchcraft spirit's.
The same witchcraft spirit's that will also be giving them directions on how to loot NIGERIA.
Tomorrow they start Ramadan and carry their mat and kettle and go to Mecca.
Almost all NIGERIA politicians consult those dark spirits that is why they don't hear from God for a divine direction.

The NIGERIA system and institution is disorganized.
Even your IGP does not know his real date of retirement.
A country that your President does not know the primary school he attended and his class mate's , a president that does not know his date of birth.
While will the corrupt police officers know their date of retirement.

Women have become something else.
I would advise the man to leave her right away before she cuts his manhood the same way the police man wife killed him.
See women and run and live.

No smoke without 🔥 fire

Another Fulani whose brain 🧠 is made of Tuwo Shinkafa.
He was among the politicians that fought Goodluck Jonathan and brought in Buhari who started the downfall of Nigeria since 2015.
A dangerous betrayal of a man he is.

The brain 🧠 of many women of this generation is made of Gari 🍲

This is pure witchcraft and wickedness coming from the East.
Knowing fully well that the drugs will be giving to sick people.
Haba, please the Igbo guys should take it easy.
Do they even consider if any of their family members could fall victim of this their fake drugs.

These Eastern guys want to eliminate Nigeria with fake drugs and drink's.
Common this is wickedness.
I saw the warehouse of expired drugs discovered in Abia State.
What is going on.
Do you look for money without conscience.

You have not seen anything yet.
Go to Nasarawa State, Taraba State, Zamfara State and Jos, you will see the Nigeria Police officers providing Security Escort for illegal Chinese miner's.
They also guard their container cabin camp where these Chinese miner's retire to after the close of work.
You cannot tell me that the IGP or some DIG and AIG along with so many MOPOL SQUADRON COMMANDERS are not involve.
Because most of their police escort are MOPOL.

NIGERIA is run by a mafia click.
All these bandit's, gun running, illegal mining, illegal oil bunkery and Boko Haram will not last 72 hours if politicians are not involve.
How can you free suspects found with guns?
See why crime will always prevail in Nigeria.
Politicians are involve.

I hope she is aware that Anie is in rehab.
I hope she too will not end up in rehab.
I still can't figure out who to pity among the two of them.
For the JAMB registration, Kudo's to her.

So unfortunate this is happening to NIGERIANS in Just about 10 years since Buhari and Tinubu came in as president.
The fraudulent aspect of it is that Nigerians do not get the value of their money they spend on both GLO, MTN and AIRTEL.
AIRTEL is the worst. They can be having poor network for up to 4 hours everyday.

This is how useless the country have become.
I know soldiers and Police fight is not new.
But fighting in a checkpoint, go and find out the cause of that fight will be because of 100 naira.
Nigeria police decayed so much under the watch of IGP Kayode Egbetokun.