HOW OBASANJO ESCAPED DIMKA'S BULLET It was on a Friday, the 13th February 1976, about 8.30 in the morning; the Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed; his ADC Lt. Akintunde Akinsehinwa; Orderly and driver were ambushed by a hit team as they drove in a black Mercedes Benz car without escorts. The car had slowed down at the junction in front of the Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi, Lagos, when the hit team struck, killing all the four occupants of the car. As the news of the death of the Head of State reached the arrowhead of the coup, Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka, of the Army Physical Training Corps, he, escorted by about six other soldiers proceeded to Ikoyi where they seized the radio station and started to play the martial music. Other hit teams spread across strategic locations moved for their targets which included the number 2 man to the slain head of state; the Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters, Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Theophilus D...
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