Book x-raying Abacha phantom coups for launch

‘Nine Lives: A Bello-Fadile Memoirs’, is set to be launched Monday in Abuja and will have in attendance former military Heads of State, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, among other dignitaries.

The book examining the harrowing era of military coups in Nigeria, was authored by Col. Bello Fadile (rtd), a key figure in the 1995 “phantom coup” against the late General Sani Abacha.
Babangida, who wrote the foreword of the book, will serve as the Grand Patron of the Day, while Abdulsalami Abubakar will chair the occasion.

Former presidential candidate under the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 2024, Prince Adewole Adebayo, will be the Chief Book Presenter, and Prof. Agbo Jerry Madaki will review the book.

Col. Bello Fadile, a respected intelligence officer of the Nigerian Army with a doctorate in law, was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in the tragic saga that implicated dozens of prominent Nigerians, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, his erstwhile deputy when he was the military Head of State, Maj-Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (rtd), who died in Abakaliki prison, and Brigadier General Lawan Gwadabe (rtd).

Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Sunday about his upcoming memoir, Bello-Fadile recounted his experiences and the story of his life and career. He noted that he was court-martialed and sentenced to life for advocating a non-violent composition of an Interim Government to replace the military junta of his then-friend and boss, Abacha.

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