How my trusted security aide contributed to overthrow me — Gowon

Former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon, retd, says his trusted information aide, Joseph Garba, Commander of the Federal Guards Unit, helium appointed to support his life, contributed to his overthrow successful the July 1975 coup.

In his 859-page autobiography ‘My Life of Duty and Allegiance’, Gowon described the lawsuit arsenic the deepest idiosyncratic betrayal of his nationalist beingness due to the fact that it was executed by men helium had elevated connected the ground of spot and, successful Garba’s case, household ties.

According to him, Garba had sworn earlier him, days before, that helium had nary cognition of immoderate crippled against his government.

He recounted however his Chief Security Officer and caput of the Special Branch, M.D. Yusuf warned him that immoderate officers were readying a coup up of the OAU acme successful Kampala, Uganda, identifying 2 cardinal figures, Garba, past Commander of the Federal Guards Unit, and Anthony Ochefu, past Provost Marshal of the Nigerian Military Police.

He stressed that the informing had placed him successful an acute dilemma, adding that helium had appointed Garba to the astir delicate presumption successful his information architecture, the elite portion whose singular mandate was the carnal extortion of the Head of State.

The Head of State besides pointed retired that Garba’s assignment arsenic caput of the Brigade of Guards was partl...