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The narrative is well defined: as detailed in the articles, through the CIA aided coup in 1985, the Buhari-Idiagbon government that staunchly rejected IMF-SAP crippling impositions on Nigeria, was removed and replaced by the Babangida regime that misruled Nigeria for 14 years and via its PDP political party, continued to wreck Nigeria for another 16.
The Foes:
To remove Buhari and Idiagbon from government, the Babangida coup was made possible by a conspiracy through the Saudi Royal family who invited late General Tunde Idiagbon to the Kingdom to enable the overthrow of their government in his absence.
Naiwu Osahon, an elder historian narrates:
Through the facilities of Abiola and the Dantatas, Yar Adua was brought into the picture to help influence the Saudi Arabian monarch to extend a special invitation to Idiagbon as a guest of the monarch, to perform the 1985 Lesser Hajj in Mecca. Idiagbon felt greatly honoured by the invitation and took with him to Mecca, most of his supporters on the splintered Supreme Military Council, including Mamman Vasta.
With Idiagbon (who was the head of the Buhari’s regime in every sense of the word, and was very popular because of his transparent honesty, patriotism, and discipline), out of the way, Buhari (who was ready to vacate office anyway), was picked up like a helpless chicken at Doddan Barracks, and dumped in jail. Idiagbon, against the coupists’ advice, returned home a people’s hero, although locked up for several months too by Babangida.
Today, after 30-years of desperation to return to power, President Buhari is not only courting the very IMF and World Bank that he knows are only poised to drain and ruin Nigeria, but the former General, now turned politician seems eager to embrace Nigeria’s other foes and co-conspirators against the Nigerian State, the very Saudi Royals who helped depose him from power and consequently ruin Nigeria.