Veteran journalist and cultural icon, Oloye Lekan Alabi has shed light on the harrowing events of Nigeria’s first military coup, revealing the dramatic moment Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu volunteered to personally confront and kill his former mentor, the Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Edmund Obilo on State Affairs, a programme aired on SplashFM 105.5, Alabi narrated how Nzeogwu’s fellow soldiers, gripped by fear refused to confront the revered Sardauna of Sokoto during the January 1966 coup.
“Most of the officers backed out. Who was going to face Ahmed Bello?. They said who?, No, not me,” Alabi recounted. “So everybody backed out. Then he said, ‘I will.’ He walked into his bedroom and gave the soldiers he took to Sardauna’s residence an order that if after 10.…..For More READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
