DAILY POST
Major Seun Fadipe, (retd), a former Chief Security Officer to the late Lt-Gen Oladipo Diya, has disclosed how ex-Military Head of State, Sani Abacha escaped a planned abduction in 1997.
Fadipe said Diya and some top military officers planned to abduct Abacha in Enugu State in 1997 and force him to resign but the mission failed after Abacha got wind of the plot.
He disclosed this while appearing on Channels TV’s Inside Sources with Laolu Akande on Friday.
Fadipe said it would have been easy for Diya and his co-coup plotters to take over in Abuja and control things from Abuja.
He said: “On the 9th of December 1997, we got to the office, and after the pleasantries with my boss, the ADC left. Once the ADC leaves, I will give my boss the security briefing for the period and after, he said: ‘Are you sure all is well?’ That was before the bomb attempt on the 13th of December 1997. That was the first time he told me directly that something was in the offing.
“A day before then, the Chief of Army Training Conference just took off in Enugu, and Abacha, being the C-in-C was supposed to open the event. The man had left the Villa and then on his way to the airport, all of a sudden, the man came back.
“So, after some time, my boss called me and told me that the man aborted his trip and he was back in the villa. My boss was a bit worried.
“The next morning, my boss told me and a few security people: ‘If Oga had travelled yesterday, he would have been arrested and there would have been a change of government’.
“I just knew I was in trouble. He said if he (Abacha) had gone to Enugu, he would have been abducted and forced to resign and there would have been a change of government.”
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