Military putsch, popularly known as coup, has defined leadership in Africa for many decades. It’s one of the reasons Africa is tagged backward by the West. The inability of African leaders to offer good governance, submit themselves to the rule of law, make putsch inevitable, almost..Read The Complete/ Original.
The acclaimed giant of Africa, Nigeria, has drifted in and out of coups since independence. It’s a dangerous precedent for a country that other nations on the continent look up to. Post-independence Nigeria has witnessed six successful coups all under different circumstances.
The January 1966 coup that aborted the First Republic; July 1966 counter-coup; July 1975 coup that threw out the Gowon government; the December 1983 coup that brought in Buhari and expended Shehu Shagari’s civilian government; the betrayal coup of August 1985 by Babangida against his boss Buhari; and that August 1993 palace coup by Abacha to end a hurriedly contrived interim civilian government of Ernest Shonekan..Read The Complete/ Original.
