Why Major Gideon Orkar Coup Was Failed

Gideon Orkar was the 9th child born to the family of Levi Orkar Chi, a teacher of Tiv heritage in Apir village of Gwer Local Government in Benue State. He attended primary schools at the village of Apir and Wadata. He also attended Boys Secondary School, Gindiri, Plateau State and while taking Higher School Certificate classes, he responded to an army advert and joined the Nigerian Army in 1972 as cadet no 682. He started his officer cadet training at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna with the 12th Regular Combatant Course. He was commissioned in December 1974 in the rank of Second Lieutenant and posted to the Nigerian Army Armoured

Major Gideon Gwaza Orkar, born October 4, 1952, was a military officer who staged a coup against the government of General Ibrahim Babangida on April 22, 1990. Orkar and his conspirators Seized the FRCN radio station, various military posts around Lagos and the Dodan Barracks, Lagos, the military headquarters and presidential residence.

Major Gideon Orkar 

Babangida was present when the barracks were attacked but managed to escape by a back route.

On Sunday, April 22, 1990, Gideon Orkar, welcomed Nigeria to the 7:am News bulletin of Radio Nigeria. His mission, announcing the overthrow of Ibrahim Babangida as the military president.

He said: Fellow Nigerians 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, homosexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badomosi Babangida.

GEN IBB AND GEN ABACHA

We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to Materialise and other human rights violations.

COUP PLOTTERS 

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 three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration.

The reasons are as follows:

(1) To stop Babangida's desire to cunningly install himself as Nigerian's life president at all costs and by so doing, slowpoke 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 neutralized, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:

(a) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong sokoto caliphate.

(b) The buying of the press by generous monetary favors and the usage of state security service, SSS, as a tool of terror.

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 programmed, his instruction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternization with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secrete 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 1990s, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.

In the light of all the above and in recognition of 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 follow:

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

(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognized 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 practiced in any part of the Nigerian State.

By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in the 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 join the federal republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.

In the same vein, all citizens of the middle belt and 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 boarders are closed forthwith.

The former Armed forces ruling council is now disbanded and replaced with national ruling council to 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.

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 warmed 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.

Gideon orkar didn't hesitate all, he state all his intention immediately he took over power and that is what caused his coup to failed or else he was already in charge of the power.

GEN ABACHA 

ABACHA RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY

Military Government of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida had thwarted an attempted coup, forcing rebel officers to surrender after 11 hours of fighting.

Speaking on a Nigerian radio broadcast monitored here, Lieut. Gen. Sani Abacha, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said the attempt had failed and that the President was ''perfectly safe.''

He said the plot was carried out by ''a few disloyal and misguided soldiers'' who had caused ''sporadic fighting'' in ''some isolated parts of Lagos.''

Earlier, a rebel spokesman said in a broadcast that the insurgents were fighting to end domination of the Government by Muslims from Northern Nigeria.

General Abacha, the military chief, said that most of the plotters had been captured and were being interrogated, but he did not say how many there were. A military aide to General Babangida  Colonel U K Bello was reportedly killed in a gun battle at military headquarters in Lagos; 

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