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1983 Coup: Dasuki facilitated putsch that brought Buhari to power – Jokolo

President Muhammadu Buhari as Military Head of State in 1983

1983 Coup: Dasuki facilitated putsch that brought Buhari to power – Jokolo

byPremium Times
April 3, 2018
3 min read

The embattled  former National Security Adviser, currently in detention, Sambo Dasuki, was a financier and facilitator of the 1983 military coup which terminated Nigeria’s Second Republic and installed Muhammadu Buhari as Head of State.

Mustapha Jokolo, who was the Aide de Camp (ADC) to Mr. Buhari after the coup that toppled the government of President Shehu Shagari, made this claim in an interview with the Sun newspaper.

Mr. Jokolo, who has been deposed as Emir of Gwandu, made the claim while reacting to a new book authored by Muhammadu Bashar, a retired general who replaced him as Emir of Gwandu.

He said Mr. Dasuki, then a major in the army, played active roles through sourcing the funds for the coup that made Mr. Buhari Head of State at the end of 1983.

Mr. Jokolo, who took exception to some details in Mr. Bashar’s  book, said about the funding of the 1983 coup thus: “Honestly speaking, that’s why sometimes my heart bleeds because what is happening to Sambo Dasuki now, I worry a lot.

“It is an irony. If I had not brought him (Dasuki) in this thing (1983 coup plot), it could not have happened with Buhari being Head of State. It was Sambo Dasuki who facilitated it not me. I only suggested it.

“He was the one who convinced these people. I swear to God, Almighty. He was the one. He did a lot, honestly speaking…So I connected them with Sambo Dasuki and wallahi, Sambo…even when we were planning the coup that saw Buhari as Head of State, Sambo Dasuki was the one who was getting money for us from Aliyu Gusau and Chief of Army Staff votes to help the coup plot because not a single kobo did we get from Buhari.

“Not only that, he used his father’s money to sponsor some Mallams to go to Saudi Arabia to help pray for the success of the coup.”

Mustapha Jokolo [Photo credit: THISDAYLIVE]
Mustapha Jokolo [Photo credit: THISDAYLIVE]

In a recently published book “An Encounter with the Spymaster” by Yushau Shuaib, Mr. Dasuki disclosed  how he and two young army officers went to meet Mr. Buhari on the 1983 coup d’etat.

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Mr. Dasuki said “he and two young military officers (Major Mustapha Jokolo and Major Lawal Gwadabe) travelled to Jos to brief Major-General Buhari, who was then the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 3rd Armoured Division on the furtherance of the planning of the 1983 coup, which made Buhari the major beneficiary of the ouster of the elected President Shehu Shagari.”

Mr. Dasuki disclosed how Mr. Buhari expressed his bitterness about insinuations on his stewardship in one of the public institutions, upon which Mr. Dasuki assured him “not to worry about such reckless and mischievous insinuations, since we are taking over power from the politicians.”

When the author of the book asked Mr. Dasuki why he participated in the ouster of Mr. Buhari less than two years afterward, he simply answered that “General Buhari should know whom he should blame.”

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Mr. Dasuki said: “I always respect and dignify my seniors and those in positions of authority, whether in service or after. Though as a young officer, I was reluctant to be among those that arrested him. And I was not.

“I only met him afterward at Bonny Camp with Lawal Rafindadi. There is no way I could have maltreated him as being alleged in some quarters. I am glad most of the actors are still alive.”

Lending credence to Mr. Dasuki’s claim that he was not in the team that arrested Muhammadu Buhari during the 1985 coup, a retired colonel, Abdulmumini Aminu from Katsina State, revealed the identities of the three majors who arrested the ousted Head of State in an interview published in Sunday Trust in August 2015.

Mr. Aminu said he led the team that arrested Mr. Buhari, with the other junior officers being Lawan Gwadabe and John Madaki.

“I must confess that I led that operation,” Mr. Aminu said in the interview.

Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki
Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki

“I went to Dodan Barracks that time in company of two other officers – then Major John Madaki and Lawan Gwadabe. Three of us went, but specifically I was the one that went upstairs to bring Buhari. With due respect, I have been reading in the papers and listening to radio, people saying that we manhandled him, we disrespected him.  That was not true. I and General Buhari are the only two who knew what transpired upstairs and there was nothing like that.

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“We gave him his absolute respect as a superior, because even before that time, we had absolute respect for him, because of whom and what he was. We respected him a lot till today and there is no animosity between us and he knew it was a military assignment that we were carrying out from our superior.

“He even told me at one time. So for us, it is just like the other way round of when he came to power during the anti-Shagari coup. I was among those who played a major role in getting him to power (in 1983),” Mr. Aminu said.

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