Former Head of State and All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential aspirant General Muhammadu Buhari has said that he knew that Ibrahim Babangida was planning to overthrow him in 1985.
“It is true that I learnt he was planning a coup against me. And I sat and discussed it with him in my office. Buhari told TheCable.
“He brought the news that he went to Kano and people complained that I pulled a pistol during a council meeting. I said Ibro ? I called him Ibro because I was just senior to him by a few months. I said whoever wants to sit on this chair let him come and sit here. And he decided to do it.”
Though he’s aware t the punishment for coup making was death and he could have put Babangida on trial, Buhari told TheCable: “Yes. Remember how many people he killed subsequently for trying to overthrow him? But when I came in, there was no bloodshed. I think a couple of policemen were killed and [Brigadier Ibrahim] Bako also died in an ambush.
“But deliberately, nobody was killed. I was in the front, the real front in the Nigerian civil war. I had seen enough of death and I know what God means by human life. Any human being, God values their life. And anybody who hopes to meet God, he should be careful about killing.
“When there is law and due process of law took place, the question is clear. Like the cocaine convicts that were executed, the decision was taken in supreme military council.”
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