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Monday, 25 July 2016

Buhari to IBB, Gusau : Tell Nigerians why you removed me from office


Abuja: Thirty one years after his administration was toppled in a military

coup, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally opened up on why he was
sacked.
Buhari said in an exclusive interview granted The Interview, that he was
removed from office because he was planning to purge the military
hierarchy of corruption.
Buhari, who has not spared the military even in his ongoing anti-
corruption war, said senior military leaders, led by former military
president, General Ibrahim Babangida and General Aliyu Gusau, removed
him in August 1985, to save themselves from his wrath.
In an exclusive interview published in the current edition of The Interview
magazine, Buhari challenged Babangida and Gusau to tell the truth on why
they carried out the coup against him.
“I learnt,” he said, “that Aliyu Gusau, who was in charge of intelligence,
took import licence from the ministry of commerce which was in charge of
supplies and gave it to Alhaji Mai Deribe.
"It was worth N100,000, a lot of money at that time. I confronted them
and took the case to the Army council in a memo...I wanted Gusau
punished."
In a statement on www: theinterview.com.ng, the Managing Director/
Editor-in-chief of The Interview, Azu Ishiekwene, said, “This is one edition
that won’t let sleeping dogs lie.”
But in an earlier edition of the magazine last December, Babangida had
said that that there was nothing in the memo which Buhari said he
submitted to the Army council.
IBB said: "Don't forget that I was one of Buhari’s closest aides. I was the
chief of army staff. So, I had an important position, an important role to
play within that administration. I don't think it had to do with a memo.”
But in a tone which suggested that the past may neither have been
forgotten nor forgiven, Buhari
challenged Babangida and Gusau to come clean on why they removed him,
asking The Interview to choose whose story to believe.
He also fielded questions about his health, the 2016 budget, the pace of
his government, former President Goodluck Jonathan and why Mr.
Babatunde Raji Fashola was handed three ministerial portfolios.

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