No military coup without civilian involvement – IBB

Former subject Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, popularly known arsenic IBB, has said affluent civilians person historically helped enactment and money subject coups successful Nigeria.

IBB made the assertion successful an interrogation connected Badeggi 90.1 FM successful Minna, Niger State, arsenic portion of events to observe his 85th birthday.

He said: “No palmy coup successful Nigeria’s past has ever happened without the engagement of civilians.”

The erstwhile subject person besides talked astir the events astir the 1985 program to region his authorities and the aboriginal sidesplitting of Mamman Vatsa, who was the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, astatine that time.

IBB noted that Vatsa, who helium described arsenic a schoolmate and idiosyncratic helium was adjacent to, archetypal said helium was not portion of the plan.

He said astatine archetypal helium couldn’t judge the accusations connecting Vatsa to the program due to the fact that they had been friends for a agelong time.

IBB explained that helium called Vatsa and Mohammed Gado Nasko into his bureau due to the fact that a high-ranking subject serviceman told him that the 2 men were linked to the plot.

“When they arrived, I asked them astir the reports that they had been mentioned successful a crippled to topple m...