Why the April 22, 1990, Gideon Orkar Coup Failed

a little while before morning on sunday april 22 199c a certain junior officer in the nigerian army major gideon orca made the radio broadcast in lagos the broadcast was a cool speech that denounced the regime of the head of state general ibrahimovic however oka and his co-conspirators would fail to deposit maguire after the coup was suppressed and eventually crushed around evening but how did this popular cool feel who was mejia gideon orca who has co-conspirators was it really a gideon okaku we shall find out about these and more in this video [Music] the family of levi okachi on october 4 1952 oka was the ninth child of his father who was a teacher of team heritage in a private village of goa local government in biennia state the young boy had his primary education at the village of april and wadata for his secondary education gideon orca attended boys secondary school guindiri present deep plateau state and joined the nigerian army in 1972 as cadets number 682 while he was taking his higher school certificate classes gideon orca started his officer cadet training at the nigerian defense academy cardinal with the 12th regular combat articles and was commissioned in december 1974 as a second lieutenant who was subsequently posted to the nigerian army armored core school at ibadan oka was a member of the directing staff of the command and staff college jaji kaduna states as of the time of the april 22 1990 cool data according to major gideon orca in a speech assistant corruption male administration of nigeria's economy the assassinations of delhi giveaway major general momovatsa and other officers on an attempted coup and other violations of human rights led to the april 22 1990 coup oca went further to call the coup not just another coup but a well-conceived plant and executed revolution for the marginalized oppressed and enslaved peoples of the middle belt and the south with a view to freeing themselves and their children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonization by a clique of the country however orca listed three primary objectives on why they decided to according to him asked the satanic babangida administration one to deter mangida from installing himself as life president of nigeria at all costs which would the progress of the country forever two to stop the domination and internal colonization of nigeria by some privileged few and three to live via right democratic foundation for the real nigerian federalism lieutenant colonel gabriel anthony yam the muslim officer involved in the rebellion in a newspaper interview 10 years after the faith coup said it was the alleged incompetency and atrocities of the military head of state general ibrahimovic that was the main factor for the coup aem also added that the marginalization of the south especially the nigerian national petroleum commission nmpc and a plethora of other unworthy events like the admission of nigeria into the organization of islamic council oic and the letter bomb assassination of investigative journalist de guiwa led to defeat rebellion now the aim of the rebels was to have a temporary government that would conduct a proper national census a proper election and then set up a framework for a national conference iam also said in the interview that they didn't plan to govern anybody but to restore power to the people through democracy how would they do that well he said there would be a catholic community which would be superintendent by a former cabinet minister under president xio usman aliyu shagari now let us take a look at how the coup happened at about 2 30 a.m on sunday april 22 1990 the filmed gideon okaku began after the rebels had met for a final briefing at the civilian warehouse in kurodu lagos which was owned by one great uburu the briefing was directed by major saliba mokuro a military police officer with a doctorate in law mokuru was at the time the military assistance to the director of army staff duties and plans dsp a position that was second only to the chief of army staff at the army headquarters after the briefing they tripped out to their various destinations in civilian transportation they didn't rely on normal military transportation their first task was to secure weapons and they were able to do this by taking control of the military police barracks at a papa they then arrested cornelius aji borisha and odaro who were transported to their jaw councilman where they were detained afterward a subgroup headed for the frc radio station some to bonicam and the others to the dam barracks ikeja and adjour councilman basically to get additional ev caliber weapons and active duty soldiers in a bid to secure these locations lieutenant okeku matalu of 123 infantry battalion mount the radio station which proved to be a workover at first for mokuro in and captain emperor who was a military police officer who secured the use of one of the fully armed armored vehicles there at the beginning of the operation lieutenant sos a chengdu reportedly grabbed an ammo vehicle from the state house and drove to the radio station which must have alerted babangida's household when he arrived at the station mukuru then sent him back to attack the damn barracks this attack led to the death of babangida's 80-day camp lieutenant colonel us monkey belu the attack on the dudan barak was in two stages first most of the tanks deployed on the grounds were technically demobilized via the removal of the firing pins second the bombardment of a chengdu on the main living quarters began before the bombardment banangidas adc bello came up to check what was going on however with that backup he tried to climb into one of the disabled tanks and when he found out that the tank was in no use he came out and tried walking alone and moved it toward radio station where he was shot and killed in all clear circumstances meanwhile one captain kasim omar evacuated general ibrahim babangida through a secret channel to an undisclosed location in lagos where remained for some days other accounts say he was more good via the bad reagan the location where he made contact with abacha and others however in a 2014 interview with sarah reporters each hindu said his subrangida escape in a pojo 504 vehicle but didn't want to kill him when he was asked why he didn't kill babangida the officer replied that he wanted the head of states captured alive and tried for the crimes he had committed defense house which was known as the flagstaff house as of the time of the gideon okaku in ikohi lagos had in custom always been the official residence of the general of sacramento nigerian army since the time of major general johnson t you agree ransom and later the chief of army staff however when lieutenant general sonia bachcha added the title of chairman joint chief of staff to his army title he stayed on to the residence it was in this position abacha was that the rebels struck in the early hours of the morning of sunday april 22 1990. now a bachelor rally slept at night but would go to a nearby guest house for recreational activities thus one lieutenant henry oburu a military police who was also at the time a law student at the university of benin led the rebels to a bachelor's official residence it was not available they then did a follow-up check at the nearby guesthouse where they knew abacha always lodged and proceeded to fire heavily at the guards and the building but failed to do a mop-up of the house by searching each room their failure to conduct a room-to-room search was instrumental in saving the life of sonia bacha who was inside the guest house well and alive this failure would also save the life of the bangida regime and would lead to the ultimate failure of the coup about 10 minutes after the rebels left abacha's first son ibrahim reportedly drove in to find his father at the guest house a bachelor then calmly got dressed in a mufti and equipped himself with two uzi submachine guns and they went over to his son he then ordered his son to drive the poggio five of our car ye abacha sat at the right side front seat in addition to so security operatives who occupied the back seats first they visited the flagstaff house where apache gave strict orders to secure the area then he began making phone calls to other service chiefs as the rebels had not got off telephone lines not had they disrupted nationwide army signals networks after making calls to secure pledges of loyalty a bachelor then gave firm others that the coup was to be resisted at all costs as the news came that sonia bachcha and ibrahimovic were still alive galvanized by occurred speech on the strange and initial explosion of some far northern states on the radio confidence was restored and officers and units who would otherwise have been able to take a weight assistance or maybe even run away tilted to the bangida regime once amored vehicles at ikeja were firmly under the control of the pro apache elements brigadier isha abamai received the kajakantomens and pushed to regain control of all other major military barracks in the lagos area the one-two-six guard infantry battalion has bonnet camp under lieutenant connell the ninth infantry brigade under bamae and the race units atikeja were instrumental in retaking to damparax and the radio station while some of the rebels were arrested and others escaped with the coup definitely added for failure surrounded and isolated in yamamoto the most senior officers involved at first contemplated committing suicide however they escaped from the radio station and eventually left the country for exiling the united kingdom and the united states respectively the civilian businessman was also alleged to be a key co-factor in the coup great guru also escaped to europe as also a chain due to the united states as a result of their escape security agents detained and hounded the families of the rebels who escaped in fact great boris brother tanao buru who said he knew nothing about the coup was jilled until the head of the interim national government chief ernest chenekon patterned him for release however before he could be released shunaikon had resigned and general bacha reversed the decision and refused to release him even though all the principal plotters were either based in the north georgia near cardinal or zarya the april 22 1990 plotters made no concrete plans and measures to neutralize units outside the federal capital of lagos although according to india there was a leak and the coupe process was escalated to avoid arrests they had thought that once banged and apache were eliminated and the lagos units were neutralized the regime would collapse another major reason is that captain emperor who was a military police officer reportedly took one of the armored vehicles his fellow rebels had secured from the radio station back to the kajakan tournament and used it to practically take over the campament and perry allegedly shot at anything that moved until he ran out of foil however his main mission which was the secure control and neutralized the main battle tanks field and is purported to be the primary reason the coup eventually failed because abacha would use those same battle tanks to fight them injure gideon occur was arrested along with about 300 of the military personnel among the 30 civilians they were mass arrests and some journalists considered critical to the bangida regime were also detained even newspapers were closed subsequently a military tribunal checked by major general ike umwachuku was instituted a major gideon occur with 41 others but convicted for treason and were all executed by firing squad on july 27 1919 some nine others were jailed where 31 soldiers were some really acquitted according to uma rights watch the accused military men were not allowed to choose their own legal counsel and there was no judicial appeal however as the convicts were about to be shot they alleged that those acquitted by the first tribunal were fellow rebels discharged on ethnic grounds therefore the armed forces ruling council afrc then ordered the retrial of 31 of the acquitted by a new tribunal headed by major general johanna yerima curry and on september 13 1990 27 of the 31 were executed bringing the total number to 69. they are estimated by nigerian history which dropped the dimco abortive coup of 1976 where 39 were executed after a trial the puchis were not remorseful about the coup in fact captain emperor was very bold and praised the late major isaac adaka boro as his mentor and hero although the april 1990 coup is still popularly called the gideon okaku it was not led by the junior officer it was really recruited into the plot just a few weeks before the coup the planning and recruitments were done by major saliba mukuro a military police officer with a doctorate in law okoro was at the time the military assistant said the director of army staff duties and plans dasp a position that was second only to the chief of army staff at the army headquarters so why was it called the gideon okaku [Music] well as the spokesman for the rebels and the nation waking up to hear his voice over the radio and ants in its popularity gave the coup its name oka was also the most senior officer to have been executed as im amokuro with nine others at escaped the gideon okaku of april 20 to 1990 led to certain reactive measures by the military against the services units or core that were thought to have been deeply involved in it military police battalions were downsized the coup also shook the northern edge money to its very foundation that led to its creation of diverse northern bodies especially the arawa consultative forum in 2000 one major obvious effect of the coup was the speedy movement of the federal capital from lagos to abuja in 1990 by the head of state's general ibrahim babangida which would disrupt the abuja master plan the coup according to herchen during his 2014 interview stripped babangida of his aura and he lost a considerable amount of self-confidence adversely a bangida's diminuendo would lead to a bachelor's crescendo who would go on to be unarguably and jurass was brought up dictator during their trials major gideon oaker and his fellow conspirators reportedly told the military tribunal that their coup was in three faces the last phase was that unless all the junior officers were killed there would be no hiding place for the babangida regime two years later over 150 middle-grade officers died in a c-130 plane crash in 1992 but that's a story for another day [Music] you

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Published: Wed Apr 28 2021