By Eric Teniola
A few hours before General Yakubu Gowon, who was away in Kampala, was toppled from power on July 29, 1975, one of the coup plotters, Col. Ibrahim Taiwo, who later became the military governor of Kwara state, approached Brigadier Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, the general officer commanding the 3rd Division of the Nigerian Army in Jos, in his house in the Plateau State capital.
“Sir, we have decided to take over the government”. “Sir, we don’t want you to do anything but we do not want you to go against us, because we are sure that the moment it is announced, if you are not with us there will be trouble”.
General Danjuma’s reply was, “Make sure there is no bloodshed. Let me make this clear, I will do nothing to stop you, but I will not join you”.
Even at that time, Danjuma was a man one could not be ignored in the scheme of things. Till…
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