What Danjuma has done to Buhari – Col. Nyiam

The mastermind of the April 21, 1990, failed coup, Col Tony Nyiam,
retd, has said that the recent outburst by TY Danjuma was a direct
indictment of President Muhammadu Buhari rather than the country's
Armed Forces.

According to Nyiam, the former Minister's allegations did not indict
the corporate establishment of the armed forces, but exposed President
Buhari.

Nyiam spoke with Sun in Abuja on Tuesday, during the public
presentation of 'M.T. Mbu: Dignity in Service,' an autobiography of
Dr. Matthew Mbu, a former minister of Foreign Affairs, published
posthumously by the Executive Chairman of Safari Books Limited, Chief
Joop Berkhout.

He noted that, "What he was rather saying was that he was indicting
the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces."

Asked why he said so, Nyiam added, "Because, as it appeared, the armed
forces is being used to promote and defend the interest of President
Muhammadu Buhari's kinsfolks' interest."

Danjuma, a former Minister of Defence, had last month, at the maiden
convocation/10th anniversary of Taraba State University, Jalingo, said
there was an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and, of course,
some rural states in Nigeria.

Danjuma further called on Nigerians to defend themselves.

Buhari had told a group of Northern bishops, who visited him last
week, that he is not a bigot that they thought he (Buhari) was.

But Nyiam insisted that, "The evidence seems contrary. It is not the
talk, but the walk is different. What is my evidence?

"The whole 80 percent of the appointees to do with national security,
that is, in terms of the Service Chiefs and Directors-General of
security agencies; 80 percent are his tribe men. That is bigotry in
action. It is not enough to say you are not a bigot. This is the
issue."

Nyiam further said what Danjuma said was not new and recalled a
revelation by the Director-General of the Department of State Security
(DSS), Lawal Daura, during a Senate summit on security that "some of
the military arms that they found with the herdsmen, the sophisticated
ones, are from the military and police armouries."