{"id":2772,"date":"2014-11-02T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2014-11-02T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:38:51","slug":"i-knew-babangida-was-planning-to-overthrow-me-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2772","title":{"rendered":"I knew Babangida was planning to overthrow me \u2014 Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2773\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Muhammadu-Buhari-360x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2773\" alt=\"Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd)\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Muhammadu-Buhari-360x225-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Muhammadu-Buhari-360x225-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Muhammadu-Buhari-360x225-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Muhammadu-Buhari-360x225.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he was aware that Ibrahim Babangida was planning to overthrow him in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, a retired major general and presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), told <em>TheCable:<\/em> \u201cIt is true that I learnt he was planning a coup against me. And I sat and discussed it with him in my office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe brought the news that he went to Kano and people complained that I pulled a pistol during a council meeting. I said Ibro ? I called him Ibro because I was just senior to him by a few months ? I said whoever wants to sit on this chair let him come and sit here. And he decided to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reminded that the punishment for coup making was death and he could have put Babangida on trial, Buhari told <em>TheCable<\/em>: \u201cYes. Remember how many people he killed subsequently for trying to overthrow him? But when I came in, there was no bloodshed. I think a couple of policemen were killed and [Brigadier Ibrahim] Bako also died in an ambush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut deliberately, nobody was killed. I was in the front, the real front in the Nigerian civil war. I had seen enough of death and I know what God means by human life. Any human being, God values their life. And anybody who hopes to meet God, he should be careful about killing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen there is law and due process of law took place, the question is clear. Like the cocaine convicts that were executed, the decision was taken in supreme military council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 www.punchng.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he was aware that Ibrahim Babangida was planning to overthrow him in 1985. Buhari, a retired major general and presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), told TheCable: \u201cIt is true that I learnt he was planning a coup against me. And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Muhammadu-Buhari-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-II","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}