The main objectives of the plotters were to eliminate the current military leadership, break up the Nigerian army and replace it with a new corps of officers and men, under British supervision, the New Nigerian said.

NuclearWinter:


No be today we begin see zombies or else why will Tunde Idiagbon make such a stupid statement and expect anybody to believe this rubbish?

BigotMan:


That republic was overthrown due to mismanagement and enbezzelment of public funds

BigotMan:


That republic was overthrown due to mismanagement and enbezzelment of public funds

izombie:
Buhari, the first person to overthrow a democratically elected government.

cstr100:

Yes, because the sane remedy for a corrupt govt is to overthrow it and replace it with a tyrannical dictatorship that proved to be worse.
No wonder, you are in a recession for the second time under the same man. Why are you guys still in a democracy now since they have proven corrupt since 1999? Why not orchestrate a coup again?
You obviously don't realize that that singular act of buhari took your country back a century in the wheel of democratic evolution.
The infantile level of politics your political elite are practicing now is what they should have phased away decades ago if buhari had allowed it to evolve.

PDJT:
Mr. Muhammed Buhari, the international kidnapper!

Nigeria military ruler Gen Buhari kidnaps exiled looter Umaru Dikko from UK 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esRIVZCX0JU

LONDON -- Nigeria Friday detained a British jumbo jet and suspended all flights to Britain after British police rescued a former Nigerian Cabinet minister who was found drugged and unconscious in a crate about to be flown to Lagos.

Nigeria denied it was reponsible for the bizarre kidnap attempt despite the fact the crate was addressed to the foreign minister in Lagos, the Nigerian capital. The Nigerian ambassador to London said 'patriotic friends' of the country were behind the plot.

Police said 17 people were held for questioning in the kidnapping Thursday of Umaru Dikko, millionaire transport minister in Nigeria's civilian government who fled his homeland after a military coup Dec. 31. Eight of those detained were released late Friday.

Dikko, brother-in-law of deposed President Shehu Shagari, was reported 'semi-conscious' but in satisfactory condition at a London hospital and was under police guard.

In Nigeria, a former British colony in West Africa, authorities ordered a London-bound British Caledonian Boeing 747 jumbo jet to return to Lagos shortly after it had taken off late Thursday.

The 220 passengers, including four infants, were detained at the airport for 16 hours but were freed Friday and given permission to leave the airport. The plane and its crew, however, were still being held.

Nigeria Airways later announced it had suspended all flights to Britain. British Airways does not fly to Lagos but British Caledonian, an independent carrier, said it was doubtful it would renew flights unless its plane was released.

The Nigerian government said it had detained the flight in response to the British detention of the Nigerian plane in London.

Dikko, who has vowed to overthrow the Nigerian military government and is wanted in Lagos on corruption charges, was abducted Thursday from his London home and found drugged and unconscious in a crate marked 'diplomatic luggage.'

The crate was one of two which had been loaded onto a Nigeria Airways 707 plane at Stansted Airport, 30 miles east of London.

'Two men were found in each crate,' British Home Secretary Leon Brittan said Friday. 'One crate contained Mr. Dikko, who was unconscious and another man who was conscious and in possession of drugs and syringes. The other crate contained two men, both conscious.'

Brittan said the crate was addressed to the Nigerian Foreign Ministry in Lagos but said he would not 'jump to the conclusion' that the Nigerian government was responsible.

Spokesmen for the Nigerian government denied it was connected to the plot.

'We wanted Dikko badly, but I can categorically say that neither the High Commission (the embassy) or the government in Lagos had any hand in this kidnap,' said Nigeria's London spokesman Moses Ekpo.

Nigerian Ambassador Gen. H.A. Hananiya told British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe that 'some patriotic friends of Nigeria' were behind the plot.

Commander William Hucklesby of London's anti-terrorist squad said the 17 people detained included an Israeli, a Tunisian, a Jamaican, a Cypriot, nine Nigerians, a Ghanian, and three Britons, including one woman. One of the Nigerians claimed to be connected to the Nigerian Embassy.

Brittan told the House of Commons that Britain had asked Lagos to drop claims of diplomatic immunity if any of those implicated were diplomats but there was no immediate response.

BigotMan:


Why are you guys using the 'You' like Iam responsible for Buhari's administration?

cstr100:

For supporting evil, you are responsible.

cstr100:

Yes, because the sane remedy for a corrupt govt is to overthrow it and replace it with a tyrannical dictatorship that proved to be worse.
No wonder, you are in a recession for the second time under the same man. Why are you guys still in a democracy now since they have proven corrupt since 1999? Why not orchestrate a coup again?
You obviously don't realize that that singular act of buhari took your country back a century in the wheel of democratic evolution.
The infantile level of politics your political elite are practicing now is what they should have phased away decades ago if buhari had allowed it to evolve.

cstr100:

Yes, because the sane remedy for a corrupt govt is to overthrow it and replace it with a tyrannical dictatorship that proved to be worse.
No wonder, you are in a recession for the second time under the same man. Why are you guys still in a democracy now since they have proven corrupt since 1999? Why not orchestrate a coup again?
You obviously don't realize that that singular act of buhari took your country back a century in the wheel of democratic evolution.
The infantile level of politics your political elite are practicing now is what they should have phased away decades ago if buhari had allowed it to evolve.

BigotMan:


That republic was overthrown due to mismanagement and enbezzelment of public funds

BlowBack:


and some of your ilk that supported Buhari truncating our democracy are now staunchly anti-coup all because of a tantalizing Osinbanjo presidency

izombie:
Buhari, the first person to overthrow a democratically elected government. Buhari, the first person to drag nigeria into recession. Buhari, the first person to drag nigeria into recession again. Buhari, the first person to rule nigeria without ssce.

BigotMan:


That republic was overthrown due to mismanagement and enbezzelment of public funds

cstr100:

Yes, because the sane remedy for a corrupt govt is to overthrow it and replace it with a tyrannical dictatorship that proved to be worse.
No wonder, you are in a recession for the second time under the same man. Why are you guys still in a democracy now since they have proven corrupt since 1999? Why not orchestrate a coup again?
You obviously don't realize that that singular act of buhari took your country back a century in the wheel of democratic evolution.
The infantile level of politics your political elite are practicing now is what they should have phased away decades ago if buhari had allowed it to evolve.

izombie:
Buhari, the first person to overthrow a democratically elected government. Buhari, the first person to drag nigeria into recession. Buhari, the first person to drag nigeria into recession again. Buhari, the first person to rule nigeria without ssce.

RomeSankara:


They don't know that Buhari has been the greatest threat to this nation since independence , before his very unnecessary 1984 coup plot Nigerians had never heard the words second hand car talkless of use them but months down after they coup they will become legends in using used cars and clothes ..Now once again nobody in the middle class can afford brand new Toyota corrolla , thus is a car most of us could conveniently afford just 2 years ago..

GreyLaw:


Indeed, president Buhari remains the greatest threat to our collective existence as a country, not even the various secessionist groups and all other forms of shadows he so much loves to hate.

If truly people receive a just reward for their actions on earth (I guess it's usually in the afterlife), Buhari should not have had a sniff of the exalted office of the president of Nigeria. But alas...

See how divided, rift-torn and hatred-filled the country has become all because of one man's insatiable lust for power and inability to lead.

Isn't it a thousand pities that some Nigerians are still itching to vote this same man again come 2019? I pray their plans get botched!

But like FSBoperator said, God willing, we shall outlive this administration. And I hope we can then put all this memory of horror into the trash can.

RomeSankara:


You won't believe I was among those who campaigned and voted for Buhari even though my mom warned me severally that most of us clamouring for the man don't know him but today she is so right .. after 8 months of his inauguration I had to go back and thoroughly research our past economic history because I couldn't understand why the man seemed ineffective, it was then I saw that Buhari was responsible for 80 percent of the rot Nigeria had become , he was responsible for the 80 percent of criminal tendencies Nigerians had developed , the problem was never corruption ( infact it was after his coup in 1984 that Nigerian embraced corruption fully as a means to survive the uncertainty ) , the problem was never Babangida ( infact Babangida was the saviour of the day even though Nigerians will erroneously blame him for decades for taking them through an economic uncertainty brought about by Buhari's incompetence) , the problem was never low oil prices , nor was it colonialism, the problem was Buhari ..It would take Nigerians over 30 years to overcome that the side effects of that episode and just when Nigerians started buying new cars again , when they started buying brand new computers again we will make the same mistake and vote in the same man whose lack of vision had destroyed us in the first place and now we are back to point where no worker in Nigeria can afford a Hyundai with his earnings except they get corrupt and steal , we are back to the time where Nigerians are embracing crime in all shades just to make sure they survive , Juju shrines are being patronised more than ever just because people want to survive the uncertainty ...It's really sad

GreyLaw:


What you wrote is the pure, undiluted truth. What pains me most is not even the man's incompetence, but the fact that a lot of people are still supporting him.

Truth is, nobody can give what he does not have. The president is giving Nigerians what he has.

I just hope that Nigerians can vote right in 2019.

Kazim88:


2019 Election would be an unopposed victory for Buhari

Someone like buhari would most likely kill hundred of thousands than be threaten to lose power.

he would first demonise the opposition before he, strike...

Only death can separate him from power...