How Ironic: Buhari Arrests Former NSA, Sambo Dasuki On Sallah’s Eve - Exactly 30-Years After He and Col Umar Went to Arrest Then Head Of State Gen. Buhari at His Residence

The immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), has been arrested and whisked to an unknown destination, a report from Abuja said.

What makes Dasuki’s arrest ironic is that on Sallah’s Eve in 1985 Dasuki was said to have arrested Buhari. And now, on the same day in 2015, Buhari allegedly orders his arrest. 

In August 1985, the evening of the 26th to be specific, at a time when Nigerians were celebrating the Muslim festival and enjoying the public holiday, a soldier named Badamasi Babangida was executing his plans of overthrowing the Nigerian Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. One of the soldiers who arrested Buhari at gunpoint was a soldier named SAMBO DASUKI. After Buhari was arrested and his government toppled, IBB threw him into prison and handsomely rewarded Dasuki by making him his ADC (aide-de-camp). Sambo Dasuki was one of the four four army majors that arrested Buhari at gunpoint that day. Others were Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, Lawan Gwadabe, Abdulmumuni Aminu .

Buhari was left to rot in jail for two years and this wrecked his family life so bad that it led to a divorce with Safinatu, his beloved wife upon his release. While Buhari was also in jail, Babangida sent soldiers to ransack and vandalize his residence, in the process destroying some of Buhari’s most valuable credentials and valuables.Let me skip what happened to 
Sambo Dasuki and his father the former Sultan of Sokoto under General Abacha.