Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has been speaking on
events leading to his ouster has the Head of
State by former military president, Ibrahim
Badamosi Babangida.
Buhari who spoke with the CableNG, an online
news platform, said he knew that Babangida was
planning to overthrow him.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential
aspirant said he went ahead to discuss the issue
with IBB before the latter went ahead to carry out
the 1985 coup d’etat.
According to him, “It is true that I learnt he was
planning a coup against me. And I sat and
discussed it with him in my office.
“He brought the news that he went to Kano and
people complained that I pulled a pistol during a
council meeting. I said Ibro? I called him Ibro
because I was just senior to him by a few
months? I said whoever wants to sit on this chair
let him come and sit here. And he decided to do
it.”
Buhari who himself came into power after
overthrowing a duly elected democratic
government led by Alhaji Shehu Shagari said he
became Head of State without bloodshed.
“But when I came in, there was no bloodshed. I
think a couple of policemen were killed and
[Brigadier Ibrahim] Bako also died in an ambush.
“But deliberately, nobody was killed. I was in the
front, the real front in the Nigerian civil war. I had
seen enough of death and I know what God
means by human life. Any human being, God
values their life. And anybody who hopes to meet
God, he should be careful about killing.
“When there is law and due process of law took
place, the question is clear. Like the cocaine
convicts that were executed, the decision was
taken in Supreme Military Council.”
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