Gowon Recounts How Aides, Associates Betray And Orchestrate His Overthrow
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon (retd), said the officer he personally appointed to protect his life, Joseph Garba, Commander of the Federal Guards Unit, was among those who orchestrated his overthrow in the July 1975 coup. He said Garba had sworn before him, days before the putsch, that he…