his antecedents and recent utterances, Atiku does not present himself
as the president that Nigerian needs at this time. He is not even a
good party man considering his utterances on Ekiti, Osun, zoning, etc.
he sounds so much of a desperate man, who is more interested in the
seat than Nigeria as a country in need of urgent help/deliverance from
the grips of corrupt men like him. With all that he tries to do to
exonerate himself from the several corruption charges against him,
only the low-witted will take him seriously. In countries where things
work, Atiku should be talking from jail. GOD WILL HELP NIGERIA!
On 01/01/2011, toyin adepoju <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com> wrote:
> *Don't push us to the wall, Violence
> may be inevitable -Atiku warns
> *By Henry Umoru
> A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the
> Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku
> Abubakar Wednesday warned that if the leadership
> of the Party and that of the country jettison the
> already existing zoning arrangement, it would
> amount to making violence change inevitable.
> Speaking Wednesday at National Stakeholders'
> Conference, 2010 at the Thisday Dome, Abuja, the
> former Vice President who noted that he was not
> praying that the political situation of the party and
> that of the country should get to the level of
> applying violent means to address the nation 's
> problems, also stressed that if the PDP fails to
> embrace reforms, it stands the risk of making itself
> irrelevant.
> Meanwhile, Former Senate President, Iyorchia Ayu
> has called on Nigerians especially those from the
> South to put behind them those eras in the 1960s
> which produced coups and counter coups in the
> country, just as northerners became Heads of State
> during the periods.
> According to Ayu, "North is not set out to dominate
> anybody. I want you to ignore the Nigerian history
> of 60 's that produced coups and counter coups
> with its leaders as northerners. It was not
> conspiratorial on the part of the Northern political
> leaders, it was accidental.
> "When we had opportunity we, not only brought
> out President Obasanjo who was in prison for
> treason out, but the north made him President
> even when his immediate community rejected him.
> It was the highest show of solidarity by the North.
> The least our brothers from the south can do is to
> demonstrate and reciprocate the goodwill. "
> Ayu who admitted that the task ahead them is
> ensuring that the Consensus Candidate for the
> north, Atiku Abubakar gets the party 's ticket as
> well as become the President of the country come
> next year, said, "we are trying to tell you that we
> have difficult task ahead of us. If you are not
> present here today, the consensus effort would
> have been a failure. But with your presence here
> today, Atiku ceases to be the Northern Consensus
> Candidate but the Consensus Candidate of
> Nigeria. "
> The Conference which had as its theme, "Building
> Consensus for National Unity", was convened by
> the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, the
> Igbo Political Forum, the Yoruba Redemption group
> and the South South Unity Forum.
> Speaking further, Atiku said, "Our coming here is
> not about Atiku, it is about the peace, the unity and
> stability of Nigeria as exemplified by all the
> speakers who spoke to this audience today. Today
> is about building consensus for national unity. We
> have some elder statesmen on consensus building.
> It is about the rule of law, due process and standing
> for what is right.
> "I am an instrument for realizing these value. I
> promise that by the grace of almighty God, we shall
> bring this country back to the part of honour.
> Before I end this short address let me send a
> message to our great party the PDP: if the PDP does
> not reform, it stands the risk of making itself
> irrelevant. Let me again send another message to
> the leadership of PDP that those who make
> peaceful change impossible, make violent change
> inevitable. "
> Also in his remarks, former Senate President Ken
> Nnamani who warned that some leaders of the
> country were planning to put national unity to the
> burner, stressed that rotation and zoning which has
> become part of the nation 's history, was beyond
> the north, the PDP, adding that it has become a
> national challenge.
> Nnamani who noted that Nigeria has a lot to learn
> from the process that brought out Atiku Abubakar,
> stressed that it showed high sense of humility and
> patriotism, just as he said that if the choice was
> from some parts of the country, there would have
> been series of court litigations now, adding that
> zoning must be adhered to against the backdrop
> that all political office holders were beneficiary of
> same process.
> The former Senate President who called for the
> externalization of the Consensus candidate
> process, also called on Nigerians to disregard
> comments by the President General of Ohanenze
> Ndigbo, Ralph Uwachue, adding that as a country,
> we lack political will to implement agreements,
> adding that some politicians were over heating the
> polity for their gains, even as he said that there
> was tension in PDP because of plans to circumvent
> the rules.
> Roll call
> General Ibrahim Babangida, General Mohammed
> Aliyu Gusua, Atiku Abubakar, Former Chairman,
> Police Affairs Commission, Chief Simon Okeke, Dr.
> Iyorchia Ayu; Lawal Kaita; AVM Hamza Abdullahi;
> Deputy Governor of Kwara State, Ajia Chinyere
> Ogugua Agagbo; Funke Adedoyin; Professor
> Babalola Borishade; Alhaji Isa Ozi Salami, Professor
> A.T. Abubakar, Professor Sam Oyovbaire; Lawal
> Batagarawa; Saleh Hassan; Haruna Adamu and
> Saleh Hassan.
> Others were former Deputy governor of Kogi,
> Patrick Adaba, Air Commodore Ibrahim Alkali,
> Farouk Bibi Farouk; Udenta Udenta; Professor
> Chukwuma Soludo, Professor Osita Ogbu; Mrs Titi
> Ajanaku, Chief Peter Biakpana; Oyewale Fashawe;
> Hassan Mohammed; Aboki Shuluwa; Saleh Jambo;
> Dr. Sam Egwu, Professor Chinwe Obaje, Professor
> A.B.C Nwosu; Kalu Idika Kalu; Ibrahim Kazuare;
> Senator Yushua Anka, Senator Hamman Bello,
> Dubem Onyia, Representative of Israeli
> Ambassador, among others.
> www.vanguardngr.com/2010/12/zoning-don
> 't-push-us-to-the-wall-violence-may-be-inevitable-atiku-warns/
>
>
> Atiku's threat of violence: Group charges security agencies
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> Written by Oluwole Ige, Calabar Wednesday, 29 December 2010
> A group, National Movement for True Democracy (NMTD), has called on security
> agencies to investigate the comment credited to the former vice-president
> and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party
> (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, alleging that it was capable of breaching the
> peace in the country.
> The former vice-president, in a recent outburst over the controversial
> zoning principle in the PDP and alleged rumour of his likely
> disqualification by the party, was said to have quoted the revolutionary
> scholar, Frantz Fanon, that "those that make peaceful change impossible make
> violent change inevitable," alluding to the fact that President Goodluck
> Jonathan was inviting violence if he should contest the 2011 presidential
> election on the platform of the PDP.
> In a statement entitled "Atiku's unbridled provocation," endorsed by the
> publicity secretary of the group, Mr Peter Afolabi and made available to
> Nigerian Tribune in Calabar, the group called on security agencies not to
> treat the 'threat' lightly because of its implications on the unity of the
> country.
> "We call on security agencies to take the threats seriously and ensure that
> nobody, no matter how influential he regards himself, takes this country for
> granted. We are determined that true democracy must reign in Nigeria and we
> will mobilise Nigerians to resist those who seek power by fraudulent means,"
> the statement said.
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> From: LiliacHammer <liliacfire@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: [UmuAnambra] Re: NigerianID | PLOT TO DISTABILIZE NIGERIA BY ATIKU
> $ CO.................COUP DETAT : WHO IS PLOTTING IT ???
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> Bomb explodes at army barracks in Nigeria
> [image: AP]
> [image: This video image taken from NTA International Television shows a
> man gesturing to a soldier as emergency workers stand in the background in
> Abuja, Nig]
> <http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/video-image-taken-NTA-International-Television-shows-man-gesturing-soldier/photo//101231/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_fb788bd047fd42898545ebe606cd2b38//s:/ap/20101231/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_barracks_explosion>AP
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> By BASHIR ADIGUN and JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Bashir Adigun And Jon
> Gambrell, Associated Press – 5 mins ago
>
> *ABUJA, Nigeria* – A bomb blast tore through a beer garden at a Nigerian
> army barracks where revelers had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve,
> witnesses said, and state-run television reported Friday that 30 people
> died, though police immediately disputed that.
> A local police spokesman said the blast occurred at about 7:30 p.m. Friday
> in Abuja, the capital of Africa's most populous nation.
> No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion in this oil-rich
> nation where citizens remain uneasy after bombings at other locations had
> killed dozens of people several days earlier.
> "It's unfortunate that some people planted (a) bomb where people are
> relaxing because of the new year," Air Marshal Oluseyi Petirin told
> journalists. "Nobody has been able to give accurate figures (of casualties),
> but we have rescued some people."
> An anchor on the state-run Nigerian Television Authority gave a death toll
> of 30 to viewers Friday night. The channel did not give an estimate on the
> number of injured.
> Local police spokesman Jimoh Moshood immediately disputed the figure, saying
> only four people had died and 13 were wounded. Death tolls remain
> contentious in Nigeria, as politicians often inflate or shrink tolls to suit
> their aspirations.
> Witnesses said the market appeared full at the time of the blast. A local
> journalist at the scene told The Associated Press that soldiers carried
> injured people away, with one officer saying he feared there were
> fatalities.
> In the minutes after the explosion, police and soldiers swarmed the area,
> blocking onlookers from entering the area. Later, an AP journalist saw
> police carrying out covered bodies and putting them in the back of police
> vehicles. Officers shouted at each other to keep the bodies covered and
> hidden from onlookers.
> The base, called the Mogadishu Cantonment, includes an area of market stalls
> and beer parlors referred to locally as a "mammy market." There, civilians
> and soldiers regularly gather for drinks and its famous barbecued fish.
> The blasts come days after a similar attack struck a nation that remains
> uneasily divided between Christians and Muslims. On Christmas Eve, three
> bombs exploded in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing dozens of
> people. That area has seen more than 500 die in religious and ethnic
> violence this year alone.
> Members of a radical Muslim sect attacked two churches in the northern city
> of Maiduguri the same night, killing at least six people.
> The sect, known locally as Boko Haram, later claimed responsibility for both
> attacks in an Internet message. Police say they are still investigating
> those attacks.
> Boko Haram means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa
> language. Its members re-emerged recently after starting a July 2009 riot
> that led to a security crackdown that left 700 people dead.
> The Christmas Eve killings in Jos and Maiduguri add to the tally of
> thousands who already have died in Nigeria in the last decade over religious
> and political tension. The bombings also come as the nation prepares for
> what could be a tumultuous presidential election in April.
> This isn't the first time Nigeria's typically quiet capital has seen
> violence this year. A dual car bombing killed at least 12 people and wounded
> dozens more during an Oct. 1 independence celebration in the capital. The
> main militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, the Movement for
> the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, claimed responsibility for the attack.
> In a statement, a spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan said whoever
> planted the bomb wanted "to turn the joys of fellow Nigerians to ashes."
> "This is extreme evil. It is wicked. It defies all that we believe in and
> stand for as a nation," the statement from Ima Niboro read.
> It added: "They must be made to pay. No one, and we repeat, no one, can make
> this nation ungovernable."
> Nigeria, an OPEC-member nation, remains a vital supplier of easily refined
> crude oil to the U.S. Unrest in the West African nation has affected oil
> prices in the past. Beyond that, Western diplomats worry ethnic, religious
> and political violence could hobble the nation of 150 million people forever
> just as it adjusts to democracy after years of military dictatorships and
> coups.
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> From: LiliacHammer <liliacfire@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: NigerianID | COUP DETAT : WHO IS PLOTTING IT ???
> To: "African" <africanspolitics@yahoogroups.com>, naijanet@googlegroups.com,
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> Major-General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika is the new Chief of Army Staff
> (COAS). He is the first Igbo COAS since 1966, when Major-General Johnson
> Aguiyi-Ironsi was the GOC of the Nigerian army.
>
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>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjsVpTNJGDM
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>
>
>
> *COUPS D'ETAT IN NIGERIA: HISTORY, SURVIVORS and VICTIMS.*
>
>
>
>
>
> COUPS: THE VICTIMS, THE SURVIVORS
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>
>
> THE mere mention of coup d'etat, the unconstitutional and violent overthrow
> of
> incumbent governments, sends down shivers and evokes traumatic memories from
> any country's nationals. It recreates those anguished images that
> overwhelmed
> the populace when the finger pulled the trigger.
> Every citizen is haunted by mortal fear of the day's uncertainty and
> discusses
> it in hushed tones, cautious that nobody eavesdrops. The penalty for
> participation is maximum: death. It, therefore, makes it a condemnable high
> risk venture. But some initiators still damn the consequences. It is all
> because it possesses limitless attractions and guarantees inexhaustible
> opportunities.
> Its charm is almost irresistible. Those who get hooked hardly would
> divorce their
> other collaborators. They, somewhat, lose every sense of reason and would
> muster whatever resources to actualise such a dream. When successful, they
> become instant heroes.
> APRIL 1990 COUP D'ETAT SPEECH
> Fellow Nigerian Citizens,
> On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and
> the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily
> inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug
> baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic,
> un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have
> equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of
> national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with
> other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were
> yet to materialise and other human rights violations.
>
> The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with
> immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to
> emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned
> and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples
> of the Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and
> children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of
> this country.
> Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of
> callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think
> it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic
> privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the
> Middle Belt and the south.
> They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them
> voiceless and now extending same to the south.
> It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and
> marginalisation is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted
> with the vehemence.
> Anything that has a beginning must have an end. It will also suffice here
> to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to
> be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards
> have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.
> For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why
> we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration. The reasons
> are as follows:
>
> (a) To stop Babangida's desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria's
> life president at all costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this
> country for life. In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of
> his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he
> perceived as being able to question his desires.
> Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against one another or
> completely destroyed are:
> (1) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause
> division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.
> (2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the
> Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.
> (3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of
> State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.
> (4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian
> decree Number 47.
> (5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an
> intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the
> necessitating factor.
> (6) Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them
> ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended
> retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.
>
> Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president
> against the wishes of the people are:
> (1) His appointment of himself as a minister of defense, his putting under
> his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition
> programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible
> political options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that
> have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to
> create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed
> forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both
> operationally and administratively.
> It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is
> unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990's, and, therefore, must be resisted by
> all.
> Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues,
> domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called
> chosen few. This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90
> percent of the problems of Nigerians.
> This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.
> This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled
> fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put
> together have been our undoing as a nation.
> This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is
> strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and
> misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues
> comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.
> Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted
> by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian
> state. (Sic) It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues
> engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:
> (1) The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving
> Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact
> had given credibility to the Babangida administration.
> (2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida's administration by the all
> powerful clique.
> (3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe,
> Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.
> (4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and
> southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the
> favoured class and their stooges.
> (5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its
> place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational
> minded parts of this country.
> (6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and
> the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1-
> or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in
> absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.
> (7) Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games
> of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be
> described by the fact that even though they contribute very little
> economically to the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served
> and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from
> the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from
> these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting
> from the resources given to them by God.
> (8) The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong
> egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian
> state or states as they circumstances may dictate.
> In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the
> aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian
> state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto,
> Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria
> comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.
>
> The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the
> aforementioned states are as following:
> (a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is
> the people's choice.
> (b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji
> Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and
> aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past
> and will never be practised in any part of the Nigeria state.
> By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are
> temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and
> southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.
> They are also required to move back to their various states within one week
> from today. They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal
> Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.
> In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are
> required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called
> all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria.
> A word is enough for the wise.
> This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials
> and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till
> date. Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger,
> trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other
> Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both
> inside and outside the country.
> We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the
> public treasury for the use of the masses of our people. You are all
> advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm. We are fully in
> control of the situation as directed by God. All airports, seaports and
> borders are closed forthwith.
> The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with
> National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other
> members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector
> general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.
>
> A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice. All
> members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to
> their respective barracks.
> All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be
> ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the
> new order.
> All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the
> national network programme until further notice.
> Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and
> Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Conversely, they are society's villains once the plot is aborted by superior
> strategies or gun-power of the man in the saddle. Curiously, the coupists
> seek
> escape routes. Once arrested, investigated and convicted, they begin the
> final journey to the firing range or long periods of incarceration.
> Suddenly, the world invokes sympathy from all quarters to avoid
> blood-letting.
> Coups have their prizes and the other prices.
> Usually, in every attempt, there are victims and the survivors. Afterall,
> human
> beings in authority are the targets. The mission is almost always to
> eliminate
> the regime's henchmen and take over power or to simply shove them aside
> without wasting lives. In this case, a coup can either be bloody or
> bloodless.
> Coup making is, certainly, not a Nigerian creation. Neither is it an African
> origination. According to Encyclopaedia Americana, one of the first modern
> coup
> d'etats was initiated and executed by Napoleon Bonaparte 200 years
> ago, precisely
> on November 9, 1799. Showing awesome trickery, he deceived the first French
> Republic to a Paris suburb where they were surrounded by battle-ready
> soldiers and the council sacked.
> Africa was initiated into the coup cult 47 years ago. The ugly monster
> reared
> its ugly head on July 23, 1952 when Lt. Col Gamal Abdel-Nasser led the
> putsch which terminated the reign of King Farouk in Egypt, ironically the
> cradle of civilization. Two years later, Gen. Mohammed Naguib's
> administration
> became history, no thanks to Nasser again.
> Suddenly, the flood-gate of coups had been thrown wide open. Sudan embraced
> it
> in 1958 before Gnassingbe Eyadema, a sergeant pushed aside the government of
> Mr. Sylvanus Olympio. Thus, mutinies found their ways into the West African
> sub-region in 1963. The whirlwind was to swirl to the Central African
> Republic two years after to allow East Africa taste the bitter pill.
> Between 1952 when Nasser's experiment put the continent on world focus
> and September
> 1, 1969 (a period of 17 years), African nations had incredibly witnessed 26
> forceful take-overs! There were expressed worries: Is Africa, indeed, the
> Heart of Darkness or is it being taken back to the dark age?
> From Sudan to Benin Republic (then Dahomey), Algeria, Zaire, Burkina Faso
> (then
> Upper Volta) and on to Liberia and Ghana among others, the nationals woke up
> to martial music highlighting the coming of a new government.
> In 1980, Sergeant Samuel Doe had stormed the stage to "liberate Liberians"
> but
> the whole globe was perplexed when the octogenarian former President,
> William
> Tolbert and members of his family were tied to the stakes and primarily
> executed! Nine years later, Doe was killed in such ridiculous fashion.
> Within the same period, Capt. Thomas Sankara who commanded amazing
> followership
> from Burkinabes, was similarly killed in a coup that brought the incumbent
> President, Blaise Compaore to power.
> Today, Nigerians are celebrating the release and selective pardon
> granted convicts
> of the 1990, 1995 and 1997 alleged coup plots by the Gen. Abdulsalami
> Abubakar-led regime. From Lagos to Odogbolu, Ilorin, Kaduna and Ehor (Edo),
> families and relatives of the freed men have been rejoicing and supplicating
> to God for sustaining the lives of their beloved ones until this day.
> Though, the Yar'Aduas and the Akinyodes were not as lucky.
> But these aborted plots, as declared by the last two military
> administrations,
> did not herald the introduction of coup making in Nigeria's political
> lexicon. Rather, it all began in the early hours of January 15, 1966 when
> Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu conspired with four other majors to strike. And with
> the summary sacking of the First Republic by these Five Revolutionaries, the
> course of Nigeria's political history was irreparably altered. Soon after
> that intervention, Nzeogwu offered reasons to justify their action.
> His broadcast identified as enemies "the political profiteers, the
> swindlers,
> the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand ten per cent,
> those that seek to help the country divided permanently so that they can
> remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the
> nepotists,
> those that make the country look big for nothing before international
> circles, those who have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political
> calendar back by their words and deeds."
> Nigerians, today, harbour sundry perceptions about the Nzeogwu coup
> which marked
> the beginning of a new era in Nigeria's history, certainly negatively.
> However, there is still an agreement that before the putsch, there were
> barely tolerable acrimonies and dichotomies along tribal lines.
> Commentators continue to question the propriety and timeliness of that
> action
> even as the topic remains open to individual interpretations and
> rationalisations.
> However, ascertainable facts can only aid our collective appreciation of
> where
> coups have left Nigeria as a nation. Prior to January 15, 1966, there were
> blatant electoral malpractices. There was palpable distrust and tribal
> hatred.
> The future was uncertain. Then dramatically, five army majors decided that
> it was time to effect change at the centre. When they finally struck, it was
> damn bloody.
> * Victims of Jan. 15, 1966 coup*
> The citizens were terribly shocked when top-ranking government functionaries
> including the Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, were killed in
> a
> selective elimination that tended to give the whole exercise an ethnic
> coloration.
> Others who died were the premier of Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello; the
> premier of Western Nigeria, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola and the Finance
> Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh.
> Also, Brig. S.A. Ademulegun, Major S.A. Adegoke, Lt. Col. J.Y. Pam,
> Brig. Zakari
> Maimalari and Col. Kur Mohammed died. Others who lost their lives included
> Lt. Col. Largema, S/Lt. James Odu, Col. S.A. Shodeinde and Lt. Col. A.G.
> Unegbe.
> *
>
> Survivors
> *
> Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was at this time the President of the Federal Republic of
> Nigeria but he had shortly left for overseas shortly before the coup. This
> way,
> he survived. But tongues were sent wagging as to whether his trip was a
> result
> of any privileged information. Dr. Michael Okpara, the premier of Eastern
> Region was also a survivor of the first military intervention in Nigeria,
> among others.
> But despite the resistance mounted by troops loyal to the incumbent
> regime, Chief
> Nwafor Orizu who was the then Senate President and acting President would
> not be convinced that there was enough peace for democratic governance. As a
> result, he handed over power to Major-Gen. Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi.
> The latter's introduction of a unitary system of government was most
> ill-advised and roused some ill-tempers.
> Owing to the high number of Northern casualties, the intervention was seen
> as
> one directed at that tribe. And when the North took its pound of flesh on
> July
> 29, 1966, it was such a colossal tragedy for the Igbos.
> * Victims (July 29, 1966)*
> The then Head of State, Ironsi was assassinated in Ibadan with his host, Lt.
> Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, the governor of Western Region who would not give up
> his
> guest. Other officers of Igbo extraction suffered similar fate. They
> comprised
> Lt. Col. I.C. Okoro, Majors Dennis Okafor, Nzegwu, P.C. Obi, J.K.
> Obienu and lieutenants E.C.N. Achebe, Ekedingyo, Ugbe, S.A. Mbadiwe and
> A.D.C.
> Egbuna.
> Equally sent to the great beyond were other officers in J.O.C. Ihedigbo,
> E.B.
> Orok, I. Ekanem, A.O. Olaniyan, B.Nnamani, A.R.O. Kasaba, F.P. Jasper, H.A.
> Iloputaife, S.E. Maduabum and J.I. Chukwueke. In addition to these 42
> officers
> killed plus no less than a hundred non-commissioned officers who died,
> thousands of innocent civilians mostly of Eastern Nigeria origin lost their
> lives as a consequence of this coup.
> * Survivors*
> Yakubu Gowon, a 32-year-old lieutenant colonel then and Chief of Army Staff
> was
> to mount the throne. He was one main survivor and key beneficiary. Add to
> this list other Northern officers of the same rank in Murtala Muhammed and
> Theophilus Danjuma. As Major-Gen. David Ejoor, the Chief of Staff, Nigerian
> Army between 1972 -1975 was to react later; "the reaction of the Igbos to
> this coup culminated in the bloody civil war that lasted for about 30
> months."
> For nine years, Gowon pioneered the affairs of the country. During the days
> of
> the oil boom, he occasioned some developments even though there were
> whispers
> about corrupt enrichment by some of his officials.
> Having accomplished the return of the political adminsitration of Nigeria to
> the North, Gowon set out to restore the Nigerian federalism and
> created 12 states
> to decentralise and bring government nearer to the people.
> Again, his administration had fashioned a democratisation process that
> was designed
> to enthrone civilian governance but when he played the midwife in aborting
> that dream, he had won more enemies, relentless critics and unyielding
> cynics.
> * July 29, 1975*
> And while Gen. Gowon was attending an OAU Heads of Government summit
> in Ethiopia,
> some disenchanted officers in a broadcast by the then Col. Joseph Garba took
> over the reins of power in a bloodless coup d'etat on July 29, 1975.
> Consequently, Gowon and his other surbodinates were the major victims in the
> change of baton that took the nation, as usual, by surprise.
> Gen (then Brig) Murtala Ramat Muhammed became the biggest beneficiary as he
> was
> installed the next ruler. Born in Kano, he climbed the rostrum in style and
> endeared himself to the national heart, courtesy of his crusade
> against corruption
> and the war he waged to ensure accountability.
> * Bloody Feb. 13, 1976*
> The coming of Murtala was short-lived. On February 13, 1976, he became
> the second
> Head of State after Ironsi to be assassinated while in office. The nation
> grieved over this overthrow which was orchestrated by Col. Bukar Sukar
> Dimka. He had other collaborators in mostly young officers of the Middle
> Belt origin.
> * Victims*
> Muhammed was the ultimate loser. He lost his life as well as the headship of
> Africa's giant. Having lost their bread winner, his family became a
> major victim
> in the bloody coup. Col. Ibrahim Taiwo, who was at that time the governor of
> Kwara State was also killed by the coupists.
> Between the Hausa/Fulani muslims and the Middle Belt christians, there
> was evident
> tension that spread to the nooks and crannies of the country. One, Gowon who
> is a christian Middle Belter was replaced by Murtala, a Hausa/Fulani Muslim
> while officers from the former geo-political area had planned a coup that
> toppled and killed Muhammed.
> A military tribunal was set up to try the coup suspects. When the
> trial was over,
> no less than 30 officers mostly from the Middle Belt were summarily
> executed.
> These included Dimka who led the coupists, Defence Commissioner, Major-Gen.
> I.D. Bisalla and the Benue-Plateau Governor, Joseph Gomwalk.
> There were also Colonels A.D.S. Wyas, A.B. Umoru, Isa Bukar; Majors
> Dabang, J.K.
> Afolabi, K.K. Gagara, J.W. Kasai, Ola Ogunmekan, I.B. Rabo and M.M. Mshella
> as well as Lieutenants Mohammed, Wayah, William Seril and O. Zagmi.
> Plus Captains J.F. Idi, Austin Duwarang, M.R. Gotip, A.A. Aliyu and Parvwang
> among others.
> * Survivors*
> Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, the second-in-command was not hit by the
> coupists' bullets.
> He was also a stabilising factor that would cool the tempers and avoid any
> confrontation between the Middle Belt and the Muslim North. Shehu Musa
> Yar'Adua, a young Hausa/Fulani Colonel was promoted to a Brigadier and
> subsequently
> a Major-General as he became the Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, only
> next to the incumbent helmsman, Obasanjo. There were other key members of
> the cabinet who survived the February 13 coup. Such included Major-Gen. T.Y.
> Danjuma and Major-Gen. Joe Garba who was the Federal Commissioner of
> External Affairs. Other generals in Martin Adamu (GOC 2 Mechanised Division,
> Ibadan), Emmanuel Abisoye, Alani Akinrinade came out unscathed in the scare.
> So did Vice Admiral Alani Adelanwa, the Chief of Naval Staff, Air Marshal
> Yisa Doko, the Chief of Air Staff and Alhaji M.D. Yusufu, the
> Inspector-General of Police.
> Obasanjo was to set up a transition programme which he religiously
> implemented
> until Alhaji Shehu Shagari was sworn in as the first Executive President of
> Nigeria, notwithstanding the controversies which accompanied the election
> result announcement and inauguration.
> * Putsch of Dec. 31, 1983*
> Having been installed on October 1, 1979, Shagari ended his first term
> four years
> after. It was a turbulent period for the ruling National Party of Nigeria
> and the incumbent Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Nigeria's economy
> had taken a downward slide and the standard of living was nothing to be
> discussed in the open. There were other allegations of reckless squandering
> of the national wealth.
> But all these did not stop Shagari from being re-elected in 1983 even
> with protests
> of electoral fraud by the other parties. Barely three months into the second
> term of that regime, the overthrow bug crawled back to suck the blood of
> Nigerians. Amid national outcry of wasteful spendings by some government
> functionaries, Brig. Sani Abacha came on air, December 31, 1983 to announce
> the administration's death.
> * Losers*
> Though Brigadier Ibrahim Bako was recorded to have died in that change
> of power,
> the intervention of the military in another democratic dispensation, was one
> in which blood was not shed. Most of the civilian administrators voluntarily
> reported at the offices of the security agencies from where their journeys
> to long agonising imprisonments started. In the usual cycle, the man who is
> overthrown becomes the biggest loser. In this regard, Shagari was the
> topmost casualty. Then, there was Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the Second Republic
> Vice-President as well as Drs. Olusola Saraki, Joseph Wayas and Chief Edwin
> Umezuoke, the leaders of the National Assembly (Senate and House of
> Representatives).
> At the state levels, the governors as well as their deputies and assemblymen
> also were forced to say bye to their dreams of running their full term. It
> was
> the same fate for NPN, NPP, UPN, GNPP and PRP, the five parties that were
> proscribed following the mutiny.
> * Survivors*
> Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari took over from where Shagari left. He had
> Major-Gen.
> Tunde Idiagbon as the man next to him. There were also collaborators in
> Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha plus others. But the beauty of the take-over
> was that again, it was bloodless. And so was the one which brought in Gen.
> Babangida two years later.
> * Coup of Aug. 27, 1985*
> Marial music at dawn had become a familiar tune to the ears of Nigerians,
> and
> when one blared from radio speakers in the morning of August 27, 1985, the
> nationals knew that another batch of soldiers had struck. They were
> not mistaken.
> When the identities of those behind the plot finally emerged, Gen. Babangida
> had forcefully snatched the baton from his former boss, Buhari.
> Again, both Buhari and Idiagbon had lost out in the military intrigues and
> in
> like manner, there were all accusations of high-handedness and insensitive
> to the sufferings of Nigerians as justifications for seizing power.
> IBB's regime toyed with the idea of having Nigeria as a member of the
> Organisation
> of Islamic Countries (OIC) as well as taking the IMF loan and later the
> introduction of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). At each point,
> the government encouraged the public to debate such measures. Babangida
> ruled the country for eight years, earning for himself the sobriquet
> "Maradona" for his deft dribbles in administering Nigeria. The anti-climax
> of his regime was the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election
> presumably won by late Chief M.K.O. Abiola.
> But in all these, the beneficiaries of his ascension to power were
> Admirals Augustus
> Aikhomu, Ebitu Ukiwe (who fell out with the administration at a point and
> had to go) plus numerous Nigerians who benefitted either by appointments or
> being awarded lucratrive contracts.
> * Vatsa's coup*
> At every point, the former Head of State, Gen. Babangida would not cease to
> say
> it loudly that Major-Gen. Mamman Vatsa (late) was his good friend. But when
> both crossed their different parts in a treasonable felony allegation,
> friendship
> took the back bench. Vatsa was accused of planning to violently overthrow
> IBB's government in 1986. A Special Military Tribunal was set up to try him
> and co-conspirators. At the end of it all, they were found guilty of the act
> as charged.
> There were pleas for clemency by well-meaning Nigerians and other
> international
> figures and bodies. But they were to pay the maximum price. No less than 13
> officers were shot.
> These victims included Major-Gen. Vatsa, Lt. Col. Bitiyong, Lt. Col.
> Mike Iyorshe,
> Major D.I.Bamidele, Lt. Col. C.A. Oche and Naval Cdr. A.A. Ogwiji.
> Others were Lt. Col. M. Effiong, Sqdn. Ldr. Marthin Luther, Wing Cdr
> A.C. Sakaba,
> Sqdn. Ldr. A. Ahura, Wing Cdr. B. Ekele and Lt. P.Odoba.
> IBB and his entire cabinet as well as their families and other
> military governors
> are those who gained from the plot that was foiled.
> * Bloody coup of April 22, 1990*
> Perhaps, no overthrow bid has been as bloody in recent times as the
> one embarked
> upon by Major Gideon Orkar and his collaborators on April 22, 1990.
> Lagosians were shaken to their marrows with the bombardments that sent
> Obalende
> and its environs quaking.
> The intent, of course, was to dislodge Babangida and his lieutenants.
> The coupists
> had taken over the radio station from where they were able to broadcast to a
> panicky nation. In what the majority saw as extremist in conception, the
> plotters were condemned for excising some parts of Nigeria in their
> broadcast.
> A strategist in matters pertaining to coup d'etats himself, IBB succeeded in
> crushing that rebellion. But it was not without a scar. Lt. Col. U.K.
> Bello, the
> ADC to Babangida was felled by the coupists' bullet and it was one that left
> obvious bitterness in the mouth of the Minna-born General. And soon, the
> perpetrators were rounded up to face trials being sentenced. Orkar and his
> fellow "dissidents" were forwarded to the shooting range. This was outside
> other Nigerians who were reported to have died in connection with the
> mutiny.
> * Victims*
> Major Orkar, Lt. Cyril Ozoalor, Capt. Perebo Dakolo, Lt. E. Akogun,
> Lt. A. Mukoro
> and Capt. Harley Empere paid the maximum penalty for treason. Also executed
> were Sergeants M. Ademokhia, Pius Ilegar, J. Itua and Lt. N. Odey.
> No less traumatised by the deaths handed over to their husbands and
> fathers were
> the wives, children and even dependent relations of those killed.
> Again, Babangida and his cabinet ministers, state governors, service chiefs
> and
> their families were the survivors of that deadly attempt to overthrow the
> government.
> * Abacha's days*
> After he assumed power as a military Head of State when Chief Ernest
> Shonekan
> "resigned" as the Head of the Interim National Government, Gen. Sani Abacha
> was a character that amazed as he dazed his subjects.
> Oftentimes, he was under-estimated. And it took time for Nigerians to
> appreciate
> that behind those dark glasses was a man of steel who would not blink to get
> his act done.
> In his own words, he came in as a "child of circumstance" but the
> pro-democracy
> groups mounted pressures on the Kano general to revalidate the mandate of
> Chief Abiola. At a time, MKO was to announce himself "President" and that
> was when the citizens came face-to-face with the reality that their ruler
> was one tough being. Abiola was arrested and later incarcerated and never
> returned until he died in prison.
> Like it happened under Babangida, there were two alleged plots to remove
> Abacha
> from power. But the characters behind the two stories made one more awesome.
> Aside Major-Gen. Vatsa, there was no other military man of note in the two
> coups of 1986 and 1990 that confronted IBB's administration.
> In the case of Abacha, it involved the heavyweights. In the alleged
> plot of March
> 1995, a former Head of State, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his
> second-in-command,
> Major-Gen. Yar'Adua were hounded into prisons in what they all termed to be
> a "phantom coup." Then, there was Col. Lawan Gwadabe, a former Niger State
> governor and Principal Staff Officer to Abacha himself.
> Will they be killed? Can Abacha kill Obasanjo and Yar'Adua? Was there really
> a coup? The civilian populace did not dare dabble into the last issue
> because
> coup making is an entirely military business.
> Throughout the investigations, trials and pronouncement of the
> sentences, Nigeria
> seemed to be sitting on a keg of gun powder. Will it explode?
> Outside the trio, the best brains in the military like Cols. Bello
> Fadile, Roland
> Emokpae among others were also implicated in the alleged plot.
> Death sentences were handed over to the key convicts but worldwide appeals
> for
> the government to temper justice with mercy, saw Abacha and his men
> commutting
> the death verdicts to various years of jail terms. In a twinkle, all the
> convicted coupists were distributed to different prisons all over Nigeria.
> Thus, they began to languish in jails.
> In December 1997, Nigerians woke up to another bafflement when Lt. Gen.
> Oladipo
> Diya, the Chief of General Staff; Major-Gen. Abdulkareem Adisa, former Works
> Minister and Major-Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju, ex-Communications Minister were
> all handcuffed and brought before the Special Military Tribunal for plotting
> to overthrow their boss, Abacha. Col. Yakubu Bako, a former military
> admninistrator was among those who were to be jailed for their alleged
> complicity in the putsch.
> * Abubakar's coming*
> Following the death of Abacha via no coup, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar
> was to inherit
> his predecessor's assets and liabilities. Obasanjo, Diya, Adisa, Olanrewaju,
> Gwadabe fell in the latter category.
> Obasanjo was to lead the first batch of pro-democracy activists and
> journalists
> out of the cells, courtesy of a presidential pardon. He was later to join
> the political train and backed by retired generals and all, the Otta farmer
> stands in our midst today as the country's president-elect.
> On Thursday, last week, the prison gates were flung open once again for
> Diya,
> Adisa, Olanrewaju and no less than thirty other convicts to walk home as
> free men. Celebrations trailing their release still persist.
> But the undying question remains; have we heard the last of coup making as a
> nation?
> Everyone recognises its illegality and proffers that the Nigerian military
> must
> be re-orientated to appreciate their real functions and their true places in
> the barracks.
> More than that, so much souls had been wasted and as the country embraces
> the
> Fourth Republic, it ought to cast a glance back and see that it has, indeed,
> paid so painful prices for coups.
> Successful or aborted, bloody or bloodless, coups are undesirable and
> condemnable.
>
> Addendum
> List of those Killed in the April 1990 Coup Trial
> KILLED
>
> Major Gideon Orkar
> ?Major Charles Idele
> Captain NH Empere
> Captain PA Dakolo
> Capt AA Nonju
> Lt. AE Akogun
> Lt. CO Odey
> Lt. CO Ozualor
> Lt. NEO Deji
> 2/Lt AB Umukoro
> 2/Lt EJ Ejesuku
> SSgt Julius Itua
> Sgt Martins Ademokhai
> Sgt. Pius Ilegar
> WO2 Monday Bayefa
> L/Cpl Francis Ogo
> L/Cpl Jepta Inesei
> Cpl. Sunday Effiong
> L/Cpl Sam Mbakwe
> L/Cpl Albert Ojerangbe
> L/Cpl Godfrey Deesiiyira
> L/Cpl Emma Oyemolan
> Sgt. Stephen Iyeke
> Cpl. Joseph Efe
> WO Afolabi Moses
> L/Cpl Idowu Azeez
> WO Jonathan Ekini
> S/Sgt Solomon Okungbowa
> Private Richard Iseghoei
> Private Egwolo Makpamekun
> L/Cpl Edogamen Friday
> S/Sgt Jolly Agbodowi
> Sgt. Etim Umoh
> L/Cpl Sam Obasuyi
> Ex. Serviceman LC Otajareiri
> Ex. Pvt Osazuwa Osifo
> Ex. Pvt CP Wasiu Lawal
> Ex. Pvt Peter Unuyoma
> Ex. Pvt Synalman Goodluck Emefe
> Ex. S/Sgt Samson Idegere
> Pvt. Emmanuel Onoje
> Trooper Roland Odogu
> Corporal Lateef Awolola
> Pvt. Dickson Omenka
> Corp Ehietan Pius
> Private Iroabuchi Anyalewechi
> Private Henry Eguaoyi
> L/Cpl Martins Odey
> L/Cpl Sunday Asuquo
> Trooper Celestine Ofuoku
> Pvt. Anthony Korie
> Pvt Thomas Angor
> Pvt Edem Basi
> Pvt Joseph Odey
> Trooper Obioma Esiworo
> L/C Magnus Ekechi
> WO2 Godwin Donkon
> Sgt. Ojo Adegboyega
> Pvt Peter Abua
> Pvt. Phillip Akamkpo
> Sgt. Shehu Onleje
> Corp Olanrewaju Ogunshola
> L/Cpl Luka Yang
> Trooper Malkily Ayogu
> L/Cpl Andrew Onah
> Michael Ebeku
> ***********************
> JAILED
>
> L/Cpl Ezekiel Akudu
> Pvt Ibrahim Egwa
> Sgt. John Alilu
> Sgt. Andarich Eladon
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> From: Adey <adey45@yahoo.com>
> Subject: NigerianID | Laurent Gbagbo exit 'could worsen Ivory Coast crisis'
> To: "African" <africanspolitics@yahoogroups.com>, naijanet@googlegroups.com,
> naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com, talknigeria@yahoogroups.com,
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> Date: Friday, 31 December, 2010, 19:13
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> *31 December 2010* Last updated at 13:54 ET
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> *Laurent Gbagbo exit 'could worsen Ivory Coast crisis'*
>
>
> Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo has said the country could
> face greater violence if he were to resign.
>
>
> The UN says some 200 people have been killed or have disappeared in the past
> month - mostly supporters of his rival, Alassane Ouattara.
>
> UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has told Mr Gbagbo he could be held
> criminally accountable for abuses.
>
> Some of Ivory Coast's neighbours have threatened to oust Mr Gbagbo by force.
> But analysts say intervention in Ivory Coast would be far more difficult
> than West Africa's previous operations in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
>
> The UK has said it would back military intervention, if sanctioned by the
> UN.
> Mr Ouattara is holed up in a hotel in the main city, Abidjan, protected by
> UN peacekeepers.
>
> Some of Mr Gbagbo's allies have threatened to storm the hotel on Saturday -
> a threat which UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said could spark renewed civil war.
>
> The election was intended to reunify the country which has been divided
> since a 2002 conflict.
>
> France accused
>
> Mr Ouattara was initially proclaimed the winner by Ivory Coast's election
> commission.
>
> But as it was doing this, the Constitutional Council cancelled the vote in
> parts of the north still controlled by New Forces rebels who back Mr
> Ouattara, and said Mr Gbagbo had won with 51% of the vote.
>
> Both men have been sworn in as president.
>
> During the month-long stand-off, men in uniform, often accompanied by
> militia or civilians, have been targeting people associated with the
> opposition, say UN human rights monitors.
> They say 179 people have been killed in recent weeks, and more than 27 have
> disappeared.
>
> But Mr Gbagbo told Euronews that his departure would not necessarily end the
> unrest.
> "If I said I would leave office right now, who could provide an assurance
> that it would bring peace and that it would not bring even greater
> violence?" he said.
>
> However, he said his resignation was not on the agenda "for now".
>
> Mr Gbagbo also said he would be prepared to accept a recount, although he
> did not give any details of his proposals.
>
> "We are negotiating. I ask myself why those who claim to have beaten me
> oppose a recount of the votes," he said.
>
> The UN helped organise the poll and says Mr Ouattara won.
>
> Analysts say it would be unlikely to agree to a recount.
>
> As international pressure increases on Mr Gbagbo to step down, the EU has
> agreed to widen a travel ban to 59 Gbagbo allies, diplomats say.
>
> Mr Gbagbo accuses France, which retains considerable economic interests in
> its former colony, of mobilising international opinion against him.
>
> "Amongst today's great global powers, each has its own sphere of influence.
> When it's something to do with Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, France speaks
> and the rest follow," Mr Gbagbo said.
>
> He has ordered the 9,500 UN peacekeepers to leave Ivory Coast and there have
> been some attacks on them by Mr Gbagbo's supporters.
>
> *BBC News*
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