Abacha wouldn’t have taken over if I was Sonekan’s ADC – Bello Fadile
A retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army, Babatunde Bello-Fadile, says the late General Sani Abacha would not have taken over power from the interim government of late Ernest Sonekan if he, Bello was allowed to resume as the Aide-De-Camp, ADC, of the interim president.
Bello-Fadile stated this on the Friday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme on Channels Television.
“I was posted to Sonekan. I don’t know why I was not allowed to resume. Still, if I had been ADC, it (the takeover) probably wouldn’t have happened. Why didn’t I resume? The Chief of Army Staff said I should wait until he (Sonekan) comes back from Malta where he went for the Commonwealth Head of State meeting that year. So, I was hanging around. The whole thing happened by the time he came back,” he said.
DAILY POST recalls that in 1993, after a controversial annulment of an election whose winner was adjudged to be the late MKO Abiola, General Ibrahim Babangida, IBB, took over power in 1985.
IBB, who took over power through a coup against General Muhammadu Buhari, resigned and formed an interim government with Sonekan as president and Abacha as Chief of Defence Staff and Minister of Defence
