Muhammadu Buhari Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Coup d'état of 1985 === {{main|1985 Nigerian coup d'état}} In August 1985, Major General Buhari was overthrown in a coup led by General [[Ibrahim Babangida]] and other members of the ruling Supreme Military Council (SMC).<ref name="Muhammad Buhari2">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammadu-Buhari|title=Muhammadu Buhari|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218031931/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammadu-Buhari|archive-date=18 February 2019|access-date=8 February 2015|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}</ref> Babangida brought many of Buhari's most vocal critics into his administration, including [[Fela Kuti]]'s brother [[Olikoye Ransome-Kuti]], a doctor who had led a strike against Buhari to protest declining health care services. Buhari was then detained in [[Benin City]] until 1988.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Toyin| last1=Falola|author1-link=Toyin Falola|title=A History of Nigeria|first2=Matthew M. |last2=Heaton|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=2008| isbn=9781139472036|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XygZjbNRap0C&pg=PR7|url-access=limited}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page