Major Seun Fadipe (Rtd), who served as the Chief Security Officer to General Oladipo Diya, has revealed the reason Diya gave for planning a coup to remove General Sani Abacha from power....CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>
In a video shared by Channels TV, Fadipe disclosed that Diya told him that he and other top military officers plotted the coup because they believed Abacha wanted to transform himself into a civilian president. He said Diya further stated that once Abacha achieved this, he would make himself a life president, which they wanted to prevent.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Fadipe mentioned that Diya personally told him this as the main reason behind the planned coup. According to him, Abacha narrowly escaped the coup attempt when he unexpectedly canceled his trip to Enugu, where the officers had planned to carry out their plot.
In Maj Fadipe’s words: “He said because Abacha wanted to turn himself to civilian President and once he does that he will become life president and he did not want that to happen. That was what General Diya told me”
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