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Exploitation and Instability in Nigeria: The Orkar Coup in Perspective

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“Fellow Nigerian citizens, on behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning people of the Middle Belt and southern parts of this country, 1, Major Gideon Gwarzo Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, sadistic, corrupt, drug barons, inhuman, deceitful, homosexually-centered, oligarchic and unpatriotic administration of General Ibrahim Babangida. We have equally commenced their trial for unabated corruption, mismanagement of the nation’s economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General M. J. Vatsa, and other officers, (as theirs was not an attempted coup, but mere intentions that were yet to materialize), and other human rights violations.”

In the early hours of April 22, 1990, Nigerians woke up to the sound of marshal music on national radio. It had happened yet again. Except that this was a novel kind of coup d’etat. For the first time in the country’s history, Nigerians from minority ethnic groups had conceived, planned, and executed a military action to topple the central government. The action failed, ultimately. Those of the executioners that were apprehended faced the firing squad. But the issues they raised linger even to this day in the polity. In this book, the first to be written on the subject, Captain Sowaribi Tolofari, one of the officers central to the putsch, recounts and examines the factors and events that surrounded their action, outlining the reasons that informed it as well as the methods adopted for the realization of their dream. Exploitation and Instability in Nigeria: the Orkar Coup in Perspective is at once a disturbing and revealing treatise. It is one book that cannot be ignored by anyone intent on placing a finger on the pulse of the Nigerian nation.

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