Chief Dan Ulasi, a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that the late Major General Hassan Usman Katsina once told him that the Nigerian military as a whole supported the January 1966 coup, insisting that the intervention was motivated by the country’s worsening political crisis rather than ethnic interests.
Ulasi made the claim during an interview on Arise Television while discussing the circumstances surrounding Nigeria’s first military takeover and the long-standing debate over whether the coup was ethnically motivated. GET FULL STORY HERE.