• Home
  • Anti-Corruption
  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
  • National
    • Government
  • Security
  • Features
  • State
  • Event
Sign in
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Password recovery
Recover your password
Search
  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
PRNIGERIA PRNigeria News
PRNIGERIA PRNIGERIA
  • Home
  • Anti-Corruption
    • EFCC

      EFCC Arrests NCAA’s Account Director, Two Others Over 2bn ‘Duty Tour…

      PHOTOS: ICPC Operatives Attacked as Young Vote Buyers Nabbed

      Efcc operatives attacked by political thugs

      Vote Buying: Political Thugs Attack EFCC Operatives

      EFCC Arraigns Professor, Indian over N1.4bn Fraud, $200,000 Thefts

      Chairman EFCC Abdulrasheed Bawa

      EFCC Under Bawa Nightmare of Corrupt Public Officers, Fraudsters – CSOs

  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
    • Minister Unveils Nigerian Navy’s Navigational Charts for Inland Waterways Development

      Passport: NIMC Urged to Justify N1,000 Fee for NIN Verification

      DG NEMA, Mustapha Habib Ahmed

      Incessant Fire Outbreaks: NEMA Boss Laments, Calls for Nationwide Awareness

      Finally, CBN, Commercial Banks Declare Old Naira Notes Legal

      Tinubu Elumelu in Video

      That Tinubu-Elumelu Video and the PR Stunt!

  • National
    • 2023 Elections: Public Communicators Should Eschew Ethnic Sentiments – APRA President

      Rotary Club to Build Peace Garden in UNIABUJA

      Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of APC

      Enough of Ethnic Profiling, Time for National Reconciliation, Healing – Tinubu

      Lagos Poll: PR Experts Fault Tinubu’s Aide, Bayo Ononuga’s Comment on…

      Guber Elections: How APC, PDP, NNPP Captured 20 States… Rivers, Kaduna,…

    • Government
      • Guber Elections: How APC, PDP, NNPP Captured 20 States… Rivers, Kaduna,…

        2023 Polls: BPSR, UNILAG sign MoU to Train Elected Governors

        Youth Minister Inaugurates Committee on NYSC @50 Anniversary Celebration

        NYSC Threatens Legal Action Against Persons ‘Abusing’ Corpers’ Uniform

        In Three Months, Fire Destroys Property Worth N23.3bn

  • Security
    • Rivers Immigration Inaugurates Committee on Welfare for Personnel

      GOC Hails Military Troops for Foiling ISWAP Midnight Attack on Mafa

      ONSA, National Counterterrorism Centre Complex Commissioned

      Police Nab Political Thugs with Weapons in Bauchi

      NDLEA Seizes 1.2m Pills of Tramadol, Intercepts Intercepts Heroin Consignment

  • Features
    • Jaigbade Alao: A Garland of Music and- A Tribute

      PRNigeria Fact-Check Reveals Identity of Abia Assembly’s Member-Elect, Anthony Abiola

      INEC

      Mainstream Media Coverage of Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election 

      Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of APC

      Nigeria: At the Cusp of Renewed Hope By President-Elect Bola Tinubu

      Kwara Politics and Ward-to-Ward Campaign – A Personal Experience, By Gidado…

  • State
    • Gov Abdulrahaman abdulrazak of Kwara

      AbdulRazaq tasks IEDPU on Development Projects

      herdsman

      Herders Killed 5,138 in Benue in Eight Years – BSEMA

      Kwara Gov mourns Death of Civil Rights Activist, Bashiru Saliu

      After APC’s Lanslide Victory in Kwara, Gov Leads Mustapha, Aluko, Shagaya…

      New Naira Notes: We Rejected Proposed April 10 Extension, Other FG’s…

  • Event
    • 12 Things you Should Know about Armed Forces Remembrance Day in…

      Buk 92 Class 30th Anniversary

      PHOTOS: WhatsApp Reunites BUK 92 Class After 30 Years… As Old…

      Nigerian Navy Charges Personnel On Discipline, Professionalism

      President Buhari Hails CDI Gen Samuel Adebayo on Defence Intelligence, Staff…

      At Ceremonial Sunset, Naval Chief Honours Officers who Freed 250 Abducted…

Home Features Military Coup? Never Again!
  • Features

Military Coup? Never Again!

By
Mahmud Abdulsalam
-
December 27, 2022
Gen. Leo Irabor, the CDS, leading other Service Chiefs to a function

Military Coup? Never Again!

By Abdulsalam Mahmud,

Since the country’s independence from the British Empire in 1960, there have been a large number of successful and failed military coups in Nigeria. A military coup, for the benefit of hindsight, is the violent or non-violent overthrow of an existing political regime by the military.

Between 1966 and 1999, the army held power in Nigeria without interruption apart from a short-lived return to democracy between 1979-1983. The January 1966 coup was carried out by mostly Igbo army officers including Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna among others.

The casualties of the coup included the Prime Minister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Sardauna of Sokoto Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Western Region Samuel Akintola, the finance minister Festus Okotie-Eboh among others.

The July 1966 coup popularly known as the Nigerian Counter-Coup of 1966, in July, saw Major-General Gowon succeed Ironsi. It lasted from July 28 to July 30th, 1966.

General Yakubu Gowon was ousted in a palace coup on July 30, 1975, which brought then Brigadier [Murtala Muhammed] to power as Head of State.

The 1976 coup is popularly and erroneously known as the ‘Dimka Coup’. This bloody and aborted coup led to the assassination of General Murtala Muhammed. Upon General Muhammed’s death and the foiling of the coup, then Lt General Olusegun Obasanjo became Head of State.

The Nigerian Military Coup of December 31, 1983 was led by a group of senior army officers who overthrew the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari. Participants included Majors General Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari, Brigadiers Ibrahim Bako, Sani Abacha, and Tunde Idiagbon. Major General Buhari was appointed Head of State by the conspirators.

The August 1985 palace coup was led by then Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Babangida who overthrew the administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari.

After decades of military interregnum, Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999, and has since enjoyed 23 years of unbroken democracy.

The economic effects of military rule were disastrous, if truth must be told. As a result of the military economic policy of the 1980s, 45% of foreign-exchange earnings were going into debt servicing and there was very little growth.

This led to a rise in poverty, crime, child abuse, disease, institutional decay and urban dislocation. The instability and dissatisfaction caused by these policies was one of the causes of the consistent pattern of coups.

And with the 2023 general elections already looming, the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Leo Irabor has advised politicians and certain segment of the populace, who still think that the Nigerian Military has that ambition of delving into the political arena, to forget it, as such thinking and belief were now archaic.

“The Armed Forces of Nigeria is a creation of the constitution and we are subject to the constitution. In the past, there had been certain circumstances, which people thought encouraged the military’s foray into politics. Some people still think the same should apply. But that thinking is archaic.”

Speaking when the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, paid him a courtesy visit, the CDS said: “Since 1999, there has been an incremental and positive socialization of the Armed Forces and we are not there yet in terms of perfection because no mortal can certainly be perfect. But I think within the grasp of professional extents, we remain on the upward trajectory.

“Not just because of the commitment that we have made by virtue of the oath and the ethos of our existence as an Armed Forces, we believe that on an incremental basis, we should work on ourselves, look at the mirror and evaluate ourselves to see what our performances have been and see what level we need to attain and benchmark all our activities and actions.

Gen Irabor noted that with the progress made by the military in restoring peace in the country and creating the enabling environment, “In no distant time, you (Nigerian’s) will begin to see a gradual reduction of the military in internal security space, giving more room for the Police to do the work.

“I am glad there is a reversal of the threats and security challenges confronting the country. We are making gains and we will continue to make the gains.

“We are hoping that never again will we have what we saw in the past, where it was becoming as if the nation’s security architecture was greatly in peril to the extent that we almost become helpless.”

On the 2023 general elections, the CDS told the NBA delegation, “We have been working very closely with the Police and INEC. The Police remains the lead law enforcement agency in that exercise.

“We remain subject to the civil authority, we are men and women of the law, obeying the constitution and ensuring that the democratic values are protected and advanced.

“I believe that under your leadership, the NBA will transform to such an extent that critical value addition will be noticed in the processes of adjudication of criminal justice in the light of the fight against terrorism, insurgency and other related cases, so that there would be a huge value in content that would be brought into the orderly disposition of our country.”

Earlier, the NBA President disclosed: “The armed forces of Nigeria are one of the institutions we are very proud of because they have sworn to protect the territorial integrity of the country. They have been laying down their lives to defend the existence of Nigeria.

We have come to identify with the excellent work that the armed forces are doing and the sacrifice of upholding and promoting the rule of law. You have defended the integrity of this country.

“You have made us proud in Lebanon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Mali. Are we where we ought to be as a nation? Are we where the military ought to be?

“There are certainly challenges here and there, but it is more discerning for every Nigerian to say a big thank you to the military. In the North East peace is returning. In the North West, sanity is being restored.”

Mahmud is the Deputy Editor of PRNigeria, and wrote in via: [email protected]

naija news hausa

Kidnapped School Children

Yauri FGC Students, Kebbi
643 days 22 minutes 26 seconds,

Baptist School Students, Kaduna
625 days 2 hours 3 minutes 51 seconds

Tegina Islamiya Pupils, Niger (Freed)
Spent 88 days from May 30, 2021 - August 26, 2021


Report By: PRNigeria.com

 
VISIT OUR OTHER WEBSITES
PRNigeria.com EconomicConfidential.com PRNigeria.com/Hausa
EmergencyDigest.com PoliticsDigest.ng TechDigest.ng
HealthDigest.ng SpokesPersonsdigest.com TeensDigest.ng
ArewaAgenda.com Hausa.ArewaAgenda.com YAShuaib.com
  • TAGS
  • CDS General Lucky Irabor
  • Military Coup
  • Nigeria
  • Politics
  • Yakubu Maikyau
Previous articleLagos Shooting: IGP Condemns Killing, Orders Speedy Investigation
Next articleZamfara: Still on Military Operations and Collateral Damages
Mahmud Abdulsalam

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

Rivers Immigration Inaugurates Committee on Welfare for Personnel

GOC Hails Military Troops for Foiling ISWAP Midnight Attack on Mafa

2023 Elections: Public Communicators Should Eschew Ethnic Sentiments – APRA President

Rotary Club to Build Peace Garden in UNIABUJA

ONSA, National Counterterrorism Centre Complex Commissioned

Police Nab Political Thugs with Weapons in Bauchi

Fact-Check: Did Bishop Kukah Say Atiku, Obi Are Not as Prepared as Tinubu for Presidency?

Fact-Check: Did Julius Malema of South Africa Advocate Nigeria’s Disintegration over 2023 Elections? 

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of APC

Enough of Ethnic Profiling, Time for National Reconciliation, Healing – Tinubu

Lagos Poll: PR Experts Fault Tinubu’s Aide, Bayo Ononuga’s Comment on Igbos in Lagos

LP Candidate for Lagos Assembly not Injured During Election, PRNigeria Fact-Check Reveals

Guber Elections: How APC, PDP, NNPP Captured 20 States… Rivers, Kaduna, 7 Others Undecided

  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
© 2020 PRNigeria. All Rights Reserved.
X whatsapp