There is
much discussion of the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari was arrested by the
former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki during the coup that saw the
emergence of Ibrahim Babangida as military ruler in 1985.
Throw back photo of President
Buhari.
Babangida overthrew Buhari as head
of state at that time when Nigerians were celebrating a Muslim festival and
enjoying the public holidays.
Sambo Dasuki was the one who led a
team of three army officers to arrest Buhari on August 26, 1985.
The others were Abubakar Dangiwa
Umar, Lawan Gwadabe and Abdulmumuni Aminu.
After the coup Dasuki became the ADC
(aide-de-camp) to Babangida.
Buhari with his first wife Hajia
Safinatu.
Buhari spent two years in prison and
that ruined his first marriage to Safinatu.
Buhari and Hajia Safinatu were
married in 1971 and they were blessed with five children: four girls and a boy.
However, Buhari release from a jail
Safinatu divorced him as she was reported to had been desolated over his
imprisonment.
Safinatu was the first lady of
Nigeria from December 1983 to August 1985.
She divorced Buhari in 1988 which
led to his relationship with Aisha in 1989, now Aisha Muhammadu Buhari,
Nigeria’s first lady.
Meanwhile, Hajia Safinatu died in
2006 of complications from diabetes.
Aisha Buhari, second wife of the
president, with daughters.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission is currently investigating
how $2.2 billion meant for procurement of arms to fight the deadly
Boko Haram insurgency were spent by Dasuki and other his associates.
The EFCC in the last weeks of 2015
made high profile arrests in connection with the matter.
The investigation is still ongoing
and the commission says more senior officials of the former government might be
quizzed on the disbursement and spending of the money.
During his
first media chat on December 30, 2015, Buhari speaking on Dasuki’s
detention, stated: “If you know the atrocities committed by the people granted
bail then you’d understand.”
Culled from NAIJ.com
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