In the early hours of April 22, 1990, Nigerians woke up to the sound of marshal music on their national radio. It had happened yet again. Except this was a novel kind of coup d'etat. For the first time in the country's history, Nigerians from minority ethnic groups had conceived and executed a military action to topple the central government. The action failed, ultimately. The planners who were apprehended faced the firing squad. But the issues raised by their coup still linger to this day in the polity.
In this book, the first to be written on the subject, Captain Sowaribi Tolofari, one of the officers central to the putsch, recounts and examines the factors and events that surrounded the action, outlining the reasons that informed the attempted coup, as well as the methods adopted to achieve its central objective. Exploitation and Instability in Nigeria: Okar Coup in Perspective is at once a disturbing and revealing treatise. It is one book that cannot be ignored by anyone intent on placing a finger on the pulse of the Nigerian nation.