"Fellow Nigerian Citizens,

On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.  We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vatsa, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialise and other human rights violations.

The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect.  Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated.  We wish to emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a  view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.

Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.

They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.

It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalisation is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.

Anything that has a beginning must have an end.  It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.

For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration.  The reasons are as follows:

(a)  To stop Babangida's desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria's life president at all costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this country for life.  In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his desires.

Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:

(1)  The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.

(2)  The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.

(3)  The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.

(4)  The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree Number 47.

(5)  The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.

(6)  Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.

Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president against the wishes of the people are:

(1)  His appointment of himself as a minister of defence, his putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively.

It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990's, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.

(b)    Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few.  This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians.   This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.

This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a nation.

This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately.  It is strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.

Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state.  It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:

(1)  The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the Babangida administration.

(2)  The wholesale hijacking of Babangida's administration by the all powerful clique.

(3)  The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.

(4)  The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and their stooges.

(5)  The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.

(6)  The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.

(7)  Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them by God.

(c)  The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as the circumstances may dictate.

In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.

The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:

(i)  To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the people's choice.

(ii)  To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be practised in any part of the Nigeria state.

By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.

They are also required to move back to their various states within one week from today.  They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.

In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria.  A word is enough for the wise.


This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date.  Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.

We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our people.  You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm.  We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God.  All airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith.

The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.

A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice.  All members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks.

All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed.  Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order.

All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national network programme until further notice.

Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all."

FACE:

Incoherent and childish. They deserved to fail ! Nigeria had a narrow escape because those rascals had nothing to offer. The speech was replete with rubbish and had little or no substance.

Now, I'd like a good ol' revolution by intelligent fellas but I'm not keen on a revolution that was put together by dimwits.

Ibime:


lol. . . at least they weren't[b] "homosexually-centred"[/b]

edoyad:

This was the coup that showed IBB and his Almajiri friends how much they were hated  by all and sundry. If that coup had been successful the carved out Nigeria would have been the most developed country in Africa without a doubt. The illiteracy and backwardness of the people Orkar cut off is one of the main things still dragging this country backwards 20 years after.
Well they say if at first you don't succeed . . . .

FACE:

Incoherent and childish. They deserved to fail ! Nigeria had a narrow escape because those rascals had nothing to offer. The speech was replete with rubbish and had little or no substance.

Now, I'd like a good ol' revolution by intelligent fellas but I'm not keen on a revolution that was put together by dimwits.

edoyad:

This was the coup that showed IBB and his Almajiri friends how much they were hated  by all and sundry. If that coup had been successful the carved out Nigeria would have been the most developed country in Africa without a doubt. The illiteracy and backwardness of the people Orkar cut off is one of the main things still dragging this country backwards 20 years after. Well they say if at first you don't succeed . . . .

FACE:

While the almajiris in those areas have continued to fuel hatred and instability due to their blood thirst, the main people dragging us back are reasonably educated (at least to secondary education).

They are the generals, some PHDs who have stolen with the pen at every twist and turn. If they had provided sound education and good environment for businesses to flourish, almajiris would be too tired after work to embark on any blood spilling adventure (maybe not entirely but very much so).

Yes, the nation has been dragged back, but the almajiris are also victims and have also been dragged back like you and I.

chosen04:

Who would the generals and their cohorts USE if the almajiris were cut-off? Nobody. In other words Orkar was right in wanting to solve the problem from the ROOT rather than cutting branches that will still grow back.

The guy has silent points

~Bluetooth:

stop trying to justify orkar's coup plot.every military coup was never done in the interest of the civilian race but the selfish interests of the army itself.

chosen04:

Am not justifying any thing, Orkar was a slient point, He was determined to fight the evil from its ROOT,

chosen04:

Who would the generals and their cohorts USE if the almajiris were cut-off? Nobody. In other words Orkar was right in wanting to solve the problem from the ROOT rather than cutting branches that will still grow back.

The guy has silent points

~Bluetooth:

he was determine to emancipate the people of the middle belt and 'the south'.

chosen04:


"'Gideon Orkar was not fighting for the betterment for nigeria per se. He was only fighting to liberated his middle belt people from the evil and devish Northerners, "'

~Bluetooth:

i bet that orkar wouldnt have been better if he had succeeded in the coup.check past past records.

FACE:

Edoyad, if those guys were more enlightened than the Almajiris, it did not show in their coup manifesto/agenda.

Did you read the conditions for letting those states back into the federation ? What they said, in effect was that without their choice of Sultan (rightly or wrongly) that the affected states were not part of Nigeria. In other words, the faith of the entity hinged on the enthronement of an individual to an inconsequential throne/caliphate. Clutching at straws in my opinion.

I have only addressed the part of the coup you highlighted. I could take the whole speech apart but it would be a waste of my time. Of-course, they had a few good points but they lacked substance.

Failure was well earned.

odogwu-x:

The Gideon Orkar coup would have liberated this country from slavery in a heartbeat of its success. His agenda was as revolutionary as they come. What proved their undoing was faulty planning and cocaine use (they were as high kites).

Arkison:

Reading his speech, what I understand is that Okar is a very passionate, overzealous and a very ambitious soilder and at the sametime too young, myopic, naive and above all clueless.

The speech is like a conjucture of some Nairaland posts. While contradicting himself in the speech, he also shows his limited knowledge of Nigeria.

udezue:

I was a kid when the occured but i could still remember the[b] euphoria but also non-challant attitude towards it.[/b] I wish they succeeded.

edoyad:

This was the coup that showed IBB and his Almajiri friends how much they were hated by all and sundry. If that coup had been successful the carved out Nigeria would have been the most developed country in Africa without a doubt. The illiteracy and backwardness of the people Orkar cut off is one of the main things still dragging this country backwards 20 years after.
Well they say if at first you don't succeed . . . .

The cross-section of plotters
within the Orkar coup was
delusional as ever. What primarily
failed the coup arose from the
pattern of carving the country. I
shall never support the carving of
colonial contraption called
Nigeria that runs into south-
north divide.