Oloye Lekan Alabi, the Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland, has stated that Nigeria had no Head of State for three days after the July 1966 counter-coup led by Murtala Muhammed and his group.
In an interview with Edmund Obilo on Splash FM 1055 from 2:22, Alabi said Murtala and his fellow coup plotters had planned to break the northern region away from the rest of Nigeria. He said they already sent their families back to the North, preparing for secession. He said their plan was to move towards Ibadan and Ilorin, then destroy the bridge linking the North to the South in order to divide the country permanently.
However, Alabi said that it was the British High Commissioner and the American Ambassador who stepped in and convinced them to remain in Nigeria.
In Alabi’s words: “For three days Nigeria had no Head of State because (Murtala) Mohammad and his gang called it “A raba”. They said in Hausa it means when you distribute things equally”
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