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    Immanuel Penda

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    Photo Description: Nigeria’s Army Chief of Staff, Major General Ibrahim Babangida who was named President Tuesday Night after the West African Nations 6th coup since gaining Independence from Britain 25 years ago. This two-picture combo is a 1984 folder flier.

    Following the coup d’état of 1983, General Babangida (then Chief of Army Staff) started scheming to overthrow military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari. The palace coup of 1985 was orchestrated with a degree of military deftness hitherto not seen in the history of coup plotting.

    The whole affair carried out by Babangida as ringleader was planned at the highest levels of the army cultivating his strategic relationship with allies: Sani Abacha, Aliyu Gusau, Halilu Akilu, Mamman Vatsa, Gado Nasko, and younger officers from his days as an instructor in the military academy (graduates of the NDA’s Regular Course 3), and gradually positioned his allies within the echelons of military hierarchy.

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