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40th anniversary of 'Palace Coup’: Day Babangida overthrew Buhari (see IBB, Dogonyaro’s speeches on August 27, 1985)

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From December 31, 1983 to August 26, 1985 when Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was the Head of State and Nigeria’s seventh Commander-in-Chief, was he “too rigid and uncompromising in his attitudes to issues of national significance” as alleged by Major-General Ibrahim Babangida when he overthrew the former in a bloodless coup? Was Buhari’s deputy, Major-General Tunde […] The post 40th anniversary of ‘Palace Coup’: Day Babangida overthrew Buhari (…
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Freedom Online broke the news in on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
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