Former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife in
an exclusive interview with Ogene Anambra disclosed that the 1983 military coup
which ousted Alhaji Shehu Shagari from office was solely to prevent an Igbo man
from becoming president.
He said that the party (National Party of Nigeria, NPN) had
already resolved that Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the then Vice-President will be given
automatic presidential ticket, an arrangement which didn’t go down well with
the political elites in the North prompting the Northern military officers to
stage a coup against the Shehu Shagari administration which was already doing a
second term in office.
That 1983 coup saw the emergence of Nigeria's current president,
Muhammadu Buhari as the Head of State.
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