Veteran journalist and cultural scholar, Oloye Lekan Alabi has revealed that the selection of Yakubu Gowon as Nigeria’s Head of State following the July 1966 counter-coup was not accidental but the outcome of behind-the-scenes negotiations involving Northern coup plotters, the American Ambassador and the British High Commission.
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Alabi made the revelation during an exclusive interview with Edmund Obilo on State Affairs, aired on SplashFM 105.5, where he described how the North, aggrieved by the events of the January 15 coup, sought a familiar figure who would signal the return of power to their region.….KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
